Oxford Scholarship Online: Scholarship and Christian Faith

Scholarship and Christian Faith Enlarging the Conversation Jacobsen, Douglas Distinguished Professor of Church History and Theology, Messiah College Jacobsen, Rhonda Hustedt Professor of Psychology and Director of Faculty Development, Messiah College Marty, Martin E. Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity, University of Chicago Print publication date: 2004 (this edition) Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2005 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517038-2 doi:10.1093/0195170385.003.0002
CHAPTER ONE More Than the “Integration” of Faith and Learning Douglas Jacobsen Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen An approach to Christian scholarship called “the integration of faith and learning” has been popular for several decades within evangelical Protestant academic circles. Originally developed by Arthur Holmes and Nicholas Wolterstorff, it has recently been championed in the larger academy by people like George Marsden. With roots in Reformed theology, it stresses the importance of articulating a Christian “worldview.” This approach has many strengths, but it is not the only way of defining Christian scholarship and other models need to be developed. Keywords: Arthur Holmes, Christian scholarship, evangelical, George Marsden, integration of faith and learning, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Reformed theology, worldview, doi:10.1093/0195170385.003.0002