Purduegatory

Our title is an ironic take on the Roman Catholic notion of "purgatory"--a place where you wait and work, earning your way to heaven. One of our purposes is to challenge the notion that graduate school is a waiting period before we enter productive work in Christ's Kingdom. As a group, our prayer is that our work will bring every thought captive to Christ.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

A book

Well, there is a book for us. It's called "Foundations of Christian Scholarship: Essays in the Van Til Perspective" edited by Gary North. Here's a quote that seem to say what we were saying at the first meeting we had...

"...Christian students need to be aware of the fact that their position if consistently biblical and revelational - and especially creedal - should not be an intellectual embarassment to them. They should not be afraid to make their position known, in whatever discipline they find themselves. ...They should help to improve that position by applying it in new and promising ways. For too long now we Christians in the academic disciplines have been suffering from a debilitating lack of an intellectual division of labor. There is work to be accomplished and an earth ot be subdued. Maybe even a moon, too."

I don't know about the moon part (and it took North from pages 3 to 24 to get to that point, and not really even address the point itself), but right on. Check out the table of contents from the one review on amazon here, and know that 1)it's in the church library, but I've got it right now, and 2)for 10 bucks you can get a copy too. The first chapter-in-earnest goes after whether or not there is a 'common ground' from which we can all (covenant and non-covenant folks) sit around and talk the facts. Turns out that that the common ground for the non-covenant person is borrowed ground. Very VanTillian.

Van Til, leafing through.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

There's another book out there called The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship that has some interesting ideas.

1/11/06 13:39  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nice post and good to know about the book. Thanks for sharing.
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