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Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind
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Mark A. Noll
In The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994) Mark Noll offered a bleak, even scathing, assessment of the state of evangelical thinking and scholarship. Now, nearly twenty years later, in a sequel that is more hopeful than despairing ? more attuned to possibilities than to problems ? Noll updates his assessment and charts a positive way forward for evangelical scholarship....more
Hardcover, 192 pages
Published
2011
by Eerdmans
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A solid primer on "Christian worldview thinking," for lack of a better term (though Noll does not, to my recollection, describe it this way). Noll's objective is to offer an introductory survey of the ways in which evangelical Christian commitment—and particularly, dedicated reflection on the revelation of Jesus Christ—can offer great resources for intellectual reflection in a wide range of disciplines—history, hermeneutics, science, etc.—invigorating Christian scholarship and hopefully providin...more
Noll's Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind is full of his finely written prose and thoughtful reflection on Christian faith and the intellectual life (though narrowly defined in academic terms), including a short chapter on the current state of the evangelical mind. The early chapters did not overwhelm with their ideas and arguments though, in part because they felt like way more convincing than I really needed (I believe in the need for evangelicals to engage the life of the mind and the cent...more
Great book. Refreshing to see someone focusing on the life of Jesus and the relevance he has for the mind and theology.
Noll, also the author of "The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind" examines the importance of Christ as the center to Christian thought. He asserts that if Christ is who Evangelicals claim he is, then Christ should be at the very center of our academic pursuits. Noll says,
"The message in this book for my fellow evangelicals can be put simply: if what we claim about Jesus Christ is t...more
Noll, also the author of "The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind" examines the importance of Christ as the center to Christian thought. He asserts that if Christ is who Evangelicals claim he is, then Christ should be at the very center of our academic pursuits. Noll says,
"The message in this book for my fellow evangelicals can be put simply: if what we claim about Jesus Christ is t...more
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Working in university ministry with grad students, I am often asked the question of just how this thing of integration of faith and learning is supposed to work. Mark Noll's new book is a landmark answer to this question. In one sense, his answer is the very simple, Sunday school answer--Jesus. Yet behind this simple answer is some very profound theological thinking. Noll not only sees the life of the mind encouraged through our union with Christ, which unites all things in him, but in careful r...more
Noll begins his conclusion, "For 'Christian scholarship' to mean anything, it must mean intellectual labor rooted in Christ, with both the rooting and laboring essential." With grace that sometimes chastens, he points out that evangelicals often root their labor, not in Christ, but in fears of or else concurrence with modernity. Why not find a deeper more faithful root in the creeds? This is an inspiring book that should challenge Christian scholars to consider their work with fresh piety.
I am very definitely not an evangelical, and much of what I see and hear (via TV and politics--not the best sources, of course) from that flavor of Christianity strikes me as a deliberate embrace of ignorance and superstition. However, in order to better understand, I do try to sometimes read serious evangelical offerings. In this book, Mark Noll an evangelical and an academic (first Wheaton and now Notre Dame), and has written a thoughtful work demonstrating that a Christ-focused religion, grou...more
I was a little disappointed with this, but I think my expectations were a little too high. There were a few things that I just flat-out disagree with him about, but for the most part it was good. I really enjoyed how he used the creeds in the first few chapters.
Had some really good points. Kind of like reading a series of academic articles not a book. Author spends too much time justifying why and how he is writing it.
Thought-provoking book challenging the reader to see how one's faith impacts the intellect.
As a graduate student in the sciences, I found the chapters on Christ-centred attitudes towards serious learning (chapter 4) and the chapter on the sciences (chapter 6) particularly relevant. In particular, Noll highlights a numbers of assumptions embedded in modern thinking which frame much of the science-religion debates today, and later encourages reflection on the philosophical assumptions with which we approach our research. Taken together, these are two challenging points of reflection fo...more
A good discussion of how the core credal Christian beliefs provide a firm foundation for scholarship in every field.
Superb. Really made me think and was a joy to read. It deserves a second read. Review forthcoming.
Chapter 6 - 4 stars
chapter 7 - 1 star
Rest - 2-3 stars
chapter 7 - 1 star
Rest - 2-3 stars
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Mark A. Noll (born 1946), Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, is a progressive evangelical Christian scholar. In 2005, Noll was named by Time Magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential evangelicals in America. Noll is a prolific author and many of his books have earned considerable acclaim within the academic community.
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