Christian Faith and University Life

T. Laine Scales is Professor of Higher Education and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Professional Development at Baylor University, USA.Jennifer L. Howell is a PhD student in Religion at Baylor University, USA.

• Chapter 1. Stewardship Reconsidered: Academic Work and the Faithful Christian.- Chapter 2. Responding to a Summons: A.J. Conyers and the Academic Vocation.- Chapter 3. Embracing Wisdom.- Chapter 4. “Vocation is Something that Happens to You”: Freedom, Calling, and Christian Education.- Chapter 5. Putting Down Roots: Why Universities Need Gardens.- Chapter 6. “Expound this Love”: Naming Your Heart in the Classroom.- Chapter 7. Christian Teachers Integrating their Faith Traditions: A Taxonomy of Practical Methods.- Chapter 8. A “Radical” Approach to Education: Teaching as though the Church Still Matters.- Chapter 9. Intellectual Humility & Higher Education.- Chapter 10. Pedagogical Practices: Lessons from Augustine of Hippo.- Chapter 11. Finding God in All Things: On Re-imagining the University.- Chapter 12. The Mind is its Own Place: Gnosticism and Why Scholars Need the Church.- Chapter 13. Cultivating Intellects in a Democracy: Privilege, Education, and John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University.- Chapter 14. Pragmatic Pluralism and the American University's Loss of Soul.

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