Faith-learning integration outlined

The following is the sketch . . . of an outline . . . of a treatment of “faith-learning integration.” It is very from-the-hip, and I’m not sure if or when it will see publication daylight. Sadly, the indentation levels did not copy from MS Word. But on we go.

(1) History

a. The Christian tradition’s high valuation of reason

b. Monasticism and the Christian life of the mind

i. Leclerq on the Benedictine tradition

ii. Sommerfeldt on Bernard, the Cistercians, and the life of the mind

iii. Bell on Bernard vs Abelard

iv. Cahill on the monastic preservation of learning

c. The rise of the university

i. The scholastics’ pansophic vision with its focus on encyclopedic knowledge; e.g. Robert W. Southern, Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe, vols. I and II and “culture 2” in O’Malley’s Four Cultures of the West

ii. The Renaissance humanistic vision with its focus on common good and moral formation; e.g. “culture 3” in O’Malley’s Four Cultures of the West and a sketch of its strong legacy in Reformation Protestantism

d. Bacon’s empiricism, Comenius’s educational theory, and education in the age of the scientific revolution

e. The idea of the Christian university

i. The founding of the ivies in the American colonies

ii. The nineteenth century

1. Berlin’s theological vision of the modern university

a. Tal Howard’s Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University

2. Contemporary engagements with where that tradition has taken us and how we can still learn from it

a. Mark Schwehn’s Exiles from Eden and recent re-examinations such as this one by Joe Creech

b. Jennifer Herdt’s Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition

c. Mike Higton’s chapter on Berlin in Theology of Higher Education

3. Newman, Oxford, and Ireland (e.g. Mike Higton’s chapter on this subject in Theology of Higher Education)

4. The era of college foundation in the U.S. (19^th c.) as related to pastoral formation and the vision of a Protestant America

f. Faith-learning disintegration in the modern era

i. The secularization of the Western university (e.g. Marsden, Turner, Sommerville)

ii. Weber’s “Wissenschaft als Beruf” and the German university model (build on reflections in section e on Higton, Howard, Schwehn)

iii. Positivism, philosophical naturalism, and scientific reason

iv. The rise of the social sciences and their impact on the university

v. Nietzsche, Foucault, and genealogies of modernity

vi. American anti-intellectualism and “the scandal of the evangelical mind”

vii. Recent interventions

g. Twentieth- and twenty-first-century (re)integration

i. Roman Catholic integration

1. Neo-Thomism, the nouvelle theologie, and approaches to faith-learning integration

2. The Great Books movement at U Chicago and beyond (not exclusively RC, of course)

3. The modern Catholic university, the Newman Centers, Catholic Studies programs, and Lumen Christi

4. Robert George and his circles and influence; FEHE and the Academy of Sciences and Letters

ii. Protestant integration, with a special focus on the U.S., e.g. (the following is rough and incomplete):

1. Francis Schaeffer, David Naugle, Alvin Plantinga, Os Guinness and the “Christian worldview thinking” approach

2. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Richard Mouw, and broader neo-Calvinist approaches

3. George Marsden’s “outrageous idea of Christian scholarship”

4. Recent historical accounts of twentieth-century grass-roots campus integration

a. Schmalzbauer and Mahoney, The Resilience of Religion in American Higher Education – particularly a chapter on college Ys, I think

b. David Setran, The College “Y”: Student Religion in the Era of Secularization (2007)

c. John Whitney Evans, The Newman Movement: Roman Catholics in American Higher Education, 1883–1971

d. Charles Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L’Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

e. Perry Glanzer’s chapter on “centers for Christian thought” in his Christian Higher Education: An Empirical Study (includes both Protestant and Catholic centers)

5. Perry Glanzer’s proposal on “identity excellence” in higher education

iii. Institutions and networks

1. The CCCU and its institutions on faith-learning integration

2. Regent College and lay theological education

3. The Christian Study Center movement in the broader context of “centers of Christian thought” (incl In Lumine, Catholic studies, and even FEHE)

4. Notre Dame: the modern Roman Catholic research university

5. Baylor: the modern Protestant research university (Sloan’s vision)

6. Christian Scholar’s Review

7. Hedgehog Review and IASC

8. Mars Hill Audio Journal

9. Comment and Cardus

iv. The importance of philanthropy to American (especially Protestant) faith-learning integration

1. Templeton and faith-science integration

2. Lilly and faith-work integration

3. Other funders

(2) Ideas central to faith-learning reintegration in the twenty-first century

a. Ontology

i. Recapturing participatory ontology

1. Boersma, Heavenly Participation

2. Davison, Participation

3. Harrison, selected

ii. Participatory ontology as reintegration tool

b. Anthropology

i. Recapturing Christian anthropology

1. Zimmermann, Incarnational Humanism

2. Jacobs, The Year of Our Lord 1943

3. Marc Cortez, selected

ii. Christian anthropology as reintegration tool

c. Epistemology

i. Recapturing Christian critical realism

1. Wolterstorff, Selected

2. Koperski, Physics of Theism

ii. Christian critical realism as reintegration tool

d. Ethics

i. Recapturing Christian virtue ethics

1. Lipscomb, The Women are Up To Something

2. MacIntyre, After Virtue

3. Pinckaers, Sources of Christian Ethics

4. Hauerwas, selected

5. Herdt, Assuming Responsibility: Ecstatic Eudaimonism and the Call to Live Well (2022) and Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices (2008)

ii. Christian virtue ethics as reintegration tool

iii. Recapturing Christian thought on professions and institutions (link to work and vocation)

1. Hunter, To Change the World

2. Willard and Black, Divine Conspiracy Continued

3. May, Beleaguered Rulers

4. Levin, A Time To Build

5. Heclo, On Thinking Institutionally

6. Crouch, Playing God

iv. Christian thought on professions and institutions as reintegration tool

v. Justice (biblical, social) (link to anthropology)

1. Keller on biblical justice

2. Other current Christian reflection on justice

3.Christian thought on justice as reintegration tool