tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post1706061575129235581..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: Teaching Angst?Bardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-43350416467380171312013-11-19T07:53:21.021-08:002013-11-19T07:53:21.021-08:00This sounds really great and really productive!
M...This sounds really great and really productive!<br /><br />My colleague, who's a biblical and Classical scholar (and a liberal-progressive evangelical) gets pushback about these kinds of things all the time from Christian students who don't want to be challenged or don't want to see outside their own perspective -- "why did they worry about all that stuff [e.g., the nature of the soul, bodily resurrection]? God loves them! That's all they need to know! <br /><br />His testy response is "For almost two thousands years, Christianity was perfectly compatible with being an intellectual -- a seeker, an inquirer. It's only in the past hundred years that Christians has come to be associated with anti-intellectualism."<br /><br />(Obviously, that's not 100% true. . . but it's a useful bit of corrective polemic. And the fact that his Bible as Lit students know he's a Christian means he can be a lot fiercer than some of us.)Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.com