Table of contents for The Bible in the university / editors, David Lyle Jeffrey, C. Stephen Evans.

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Contents
Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction
David Lyle Jeffrey
The Bible in Intellectual History
Authority and Wisdom
Authority and the Book
A Flourishing of the Disciplines
Ad Fontes Redivivus?
Postscript
1. The Bible, the University, and the God Who Hides
Dallas Willard
Sources of Knowledge
The Bible as a Source of Knowledge
A Brief History of ?Knowledge?
Knowing vs. Not-Knowing
Knowledge of the God who Hides
The Task of the Christian Intellectual
2, The Place of Scripture in Christian Theology
William Abraham
An Important Platitude
The Creation of Biblical Studies
The Unexpected Disaster
The Really Deep Problem
Retracing Our Steps
Back to the Crisis Again
Turning to the Future
3. No Longer Queen: The Theological Disciplines and Their Sisters
Al Wolters
Foundational Assumptions in Biblical Scholarship
Bringing Scripture to bear on Christian Scholarship
4. At the School of Truth: The Ecclesial Character of Theology and Exegesis in the Thought of Benedict XVI
Scott Hahn
Truth, Freedom, and the Academy
The Critique of Academic Biblical Criticism
The Ecclesial Locus of Theology and Exegesis
Benedict?s New Synthesis
5. The Spiritual Sense(s) Today
Glenn Olsen
Recovering the Spiritual Sense(s)
Rethinking the ?Apostolic? Exegetical Tradition
Reconsidering Terminology: ?Allegory? and ?Typology?
Reclaiming the ?Historical? Sense
Restoring the Analogical Imagination
6. Situationism and the New Testament Psychology of the Heart
Robert C. Roberts
Introduction
Situationism
Traits and Situations
The Psychology of the Heart
Application of the Psychology of the Heart to Situationism
Conclusion
7. The Bible, Positive Law, and the Legal Academy
Robert F. Cochran, Jr.
The Bible and Positive Law
Jesus and the Positive Law
The Legal Academy
8. Biblical Imagery and Educational Imagination: Comenius and the Garden of Delight
David I. Smith
Faith, Learning and Metaphor
The Garden of Delight as a School
The School as a Garden of Delight
The Garden of Delight Today
Coda: Of Math, Grammar and Reconciliation
9. Reading Habits, Scripture and the University
John Sullivan
Scripture and Scholarship
Inhospitable environments
Moving forward in hope
10. The Case for Empirical Assessment of Biblical Literacy in America
Byron Johnson
Introduction
Are Christians and Non-Christians Different on Key Social Outcome Indicators?
Is America Becoming a Secular and Less Religious Society?
Data on Religion in America
Is Bible Literacy Low and Declining in America?
Conclusions
11. ?As if God Were Dead?: American Literature and the Question Of Scripture
Roger Lundin
?As if God Were Dead?: Emerson and Scriptural Authority
?The Secret of Our Paternity?: Scripture in the School of Melville
?An Antique Volume?: Dickinson and the Limits of Scripture
A Theological Response
12. Biblical Literacy, Academic Freedom, and Christian Liberty
David Lyle Jeffrey
Eclipse of Biblical Narrative
Egotism and the Common Lot
The Bible and Academic Freedom
Afterword ? The Bible and the Academy: Some Concluding Thoughts and Possible Future Directions
C. Stephen Evans
University of Gloucestershire
The British and Foreign Bible Society
Baylor University
Redeemer University College
Scripture Index
Names Index
Subject Index

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Bible -- Influence.
Education, Higher.
Church and college.
Universities and colleges -- Religion.