Renewing Minds: Serving Church and Society through Christian Higher Education » (Revised)

David S. Dockery (Ph.D., University of Texas system) is President of Union University in Jackson, Tennessee where he has served since December, 1995. Dockery is the author or editor of over thirty books including Southern Baptist Consensus and Renewal, Renewing Minds, Biblical Interpretation Then and Now, Interpreting the New Testament, Theologians of the Baptist Tradition, Shaping a Christian Worldview; Holman Bible Handbook, Foundations for Biblical Interpretation; Southern Baptists and American Evangelicals; New Dimensions in Evangelical Thought, and Christian Scripture: An Evangelical Perspective on Inspiration, Authority and Interpretation. He is a consulting editor for Christianity Today and serves on several editorial boards for a variety of periodicals and publishing houses. Dockery has served as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, as well as the Consortium for Global Education.

Renewing Minds encourages readers to better serve God, the church, and society by taking part in or supporting Christian higher education.

 

Foreword     xiii
Preface     xix
Acknowledgments     xxiii
Loving God with Our Minds     1
Renewing Minds, Serving Church and Society     23
Shaping a Christian Worldview     47
Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual Tradition     71
Integrating Faith and Learning     95
Envisioning a Shared Community of Tradition, Belonging, and Renewed Minds     119
Establishing a Grace-Filled Academic Community     139
Developing a Theology for Christian Higher Education     169
Thinking Globally about the Future     187
Addendum: A Bibliography for Faith and Learning     207
Name Index     257
Subject Index     259
Scripture Index     263