Posts Tagged university

• The Vatican’s recent statement on the practice of theology (HT Fred Sanders)
• David Brooks on the gray tsunami
• A right-wing account of class struggle in contemporary America
• In which Pat Buchanan implicitly compares Rush Limbaugh to Sir Thomas More
• One professor, thousands of students.  What could possibly go wrong?
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• Slavoj Žižek on some changes in capitalism that Karl Marx did not anticipate
• Some prognostications on the future of higher education in America: depressing or invigorating?
• College sports, Derrida, and Homer’s Iliad
• Kevin DeYoung on why to believe in a historical Adam
• James McGrath mocks Kevin DeYoung as uneducated
• Peter Enns offers a far more nuanced and irenic response to DeYoung
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• Roger Olsen revisits the Ivan Karamazov “Rebellion” question
• When parents send their kids to college, whose sports cars are they financing?
• Educators could learn a thing or two from those old Ohio newspapers.
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• Another editorial on why colleges and universities are tanking (’cause we just can’t get enough of those)
• Rod Dreher on why even Catholics are Protestants now
• A tribute to Edward Schillebeeckx and his theology 
• A critique of Tony Perkins‘s remarks on the Occupy movement
• A call to arms (we really can’t resist) for academic philosophers
• College students who give up Facebook... because they WANT TO!
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General Introduction
- Facebook feedback
- The podcast gains sentience
- The return of CWC
- Homebrewed Christianity

A Practical Topic
- Where do intellectuals fit into a local congregation?
- Our personal experiences

The Lonely Academic
- Anti-intellectual congregations
- Stratification by class, not geography
- Hopwood envy
- Churches in university towns

The Monastery Model
- Alongside the local congregation
- The Christian College Model
- Intellectual overload
- Intelligence vs. intellectual

Unnecessary –Isms?
- Which came first?
- Start at ground level, not with the theory
- Young Christian women and feminism
- The power and value of labels

The Rabid Individualist
- The power and value of labels?
- Emerson: heretic to the heretics
- Make your own way
- Kierkegaard’s attack on the Danish church
- Can Kierkegaardianism exist within the church?
- Milton’s individualistic Biblicism
- The Church of One

General Dissatisfaction
- Criticizing sermons
- The riff sermon
- Literary criticism in the pew
- Michial’s problem with music

The Philosopher-King
- Calvin’s Geneva
- Stumbling into political power
- The problem with church-planting

Proper Models
- Why should this question apply only to academics?
- Trying less to stand out and more to fit in
- C.S. Lewis in church
- You are not the philosopher-king
- Pope Gregory as a model

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The Divinity School Address.” Essays and Lectures. Ed. Joel Porte. New York: Library of America, 1983.

Kierkegaard, Søren. Attack Upon Christendom. Trans. Walter Lowrie. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1968.

Milton, John. Paradise Lost. New York: Norton, 2004.

• The art exhibit that marks… wait for it… the end of postmodernism (let’s see if this draws out the Emergent crowd…)
• James K.A. Smith on the problems with contemporary academic theology
• The big-ticket, elite colleges are a scam, it turns out.
• I just knew my liberal arts degree would come in handy!
• Heather Hoover on the day when the princess train stops at your house
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• The utter moral bankruptcy of national academic conferences
• Some tidbits from Barth on relationships between Scripture and theology
• Some facile, relativistic tidbits on pop music in the twenty-first century
• Some facile, relativistic tidbits on mercenaries in the twenty-first century
• A conservative critique of the Pledge of Allegiance
• More bad-news trends in American colleges
• A nice summary of the “new perspective” approach to the New Testament
• The diversity of the Christian intellectual scene in China
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• Tripp Fuller issues a manifesto on seminary education.
• Did you hear the one about the Hegelian who went to Saint Louis?
• An encomium for Stanley Fish
• The science of self-control (and why we should have listened to Homer)
• The historical ignorance, philosophical illiteracy, and right-wing politics of the nü atheism
• Depressing news on the research-1 university
• More depressing news on the research-1 university
• Why the research-1 university should have listened to Newman
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• Stanley Fish notes the similarities in the right-wing and left-wing criticisms of the modern university.
• Patrick Deneen calls for public liberal arts education, not careerist college education, for all citizens.
• Andrew Perrimen offers N.T. Wright as good medicine both for neo-Calvinists and for Emergents.
• Joanne Barkan suggests new ways to think about the “failure” of American public education.
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