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Authors: Duane Litfin
ISBN-13: 9780802827838, ISBN-10: 0802827837
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Duane Litfin

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Table of Contents

1Introduction1
2Two academic models11
Challenge : to understand more clearly our own identity
3The centerpiece34
Challenge : to see more fully whom we serve
4A centered education64
Challenge : to keep the center at the center
5It's all God's truth85
Challenge : to strengthen the foundations of Christian thought
6A balanced epistemology99
Challenge : to preserve the idea of truth
7Integrative thinking : prolegomena127
Challenge : to understand the integrative mandate
8Doing integration149
Challenge : to sustain our commitment to the integrative task
9Faith and learning181
Challenge : to reinforce our commitment to revealed truth
10The voluntary principle214
Challenge : to reconcile institutional commitments with individual freedoms
11Institutional breadth237
Challenge : to appreciate our institutional uniqueness
12Our place in the academy254
Challenge : to engender a more congenial academic environment254

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