Renewing Christian intellectual life in the world's research universities
Brief reflections from scholars on connections between their work and the theology.
University of Cambridge
The created order provides the starting framework not only for the moral order, but also for the possibility of science. And as with the moral order, key aspects of the created order were observed and formalised in parallel with Biblical revelation and insights. For example, the Pythagorean passion …
University of Bonn
My academic work as a Catholic practical theologian consists, among other things, in rethinking religious education from a theological perspective. What are the “theologoumena” we have at our disposal to critically reframe the “order” of contemporary religious education (RE)? What really contributes…
University of Hong Kong
Nigel Biggar begins his theological brief by pitting freedom and order: ‘Modern Western culture warms to freedom and shies away from order. Whereas ‘freedom’ connotes liberation, exhilaration, and vitality, ‘order’ connotes oppression, constraint, and sterility.’ Modern freedom seems to define itsel…
University of Melbourne
As I read Nigel Biggar’s brief on “Order” a couple of areas are of interest and speak to me of the work that I have been doing over the last few years in collegiate education as Principal of Emmanuel College at the University of Queensland and Master of Queen’s College within the University of Melbo…
University College London
The two sections that spoke to me, especially reading them together, were: (i) the penultimate paragraph on the prophetic role of the Christian academic through the exercise of the Christian epistemic virtues; and (ii) the section on functional hierarchies marked by a fraternal ethos.
The University of Queensland
Professor Nigel Biggar has written a wonderful theology brief on the topic of Order. My comments are in the nature of supplementary thoughts that build upon the admirable theological foundation he has constructed.
Harvard Medical School
This discussion of the moral order is germane to my current work on the psychiatrist’s role in the patient’s moral life. While value neutrality on the part of a therapist is generally recognized to be a myth, explicit discussion of the moral dimension of clinical work is uncommon. This stems in part…
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