Christianity and intellectual inquiry : thinking as pilgrimage / Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen.
| Author/creator | Jacobsen, Douglas G., 1951- author. |
| Other author | Jacobsen, Rhonda Hustedt author |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | x, 221 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part I: Intellectual inquiry in Christian history. Faith learning in the Roman and Persian empires -- Faith and learning in the four Christian communities -- Part II: America's shifting intellectual terrain. Epistemological universalism -- Cognitive pluralism -- An age of identity -- Part III: Intellectual pilgrimage in an age of identity. Intellectual pilgrimage -- The pathway of attentiveness -- The pathway of contemplation -- The pathway of proclamation -- The pathway of compassion -- Conclusion: Christianity, intellectual inquiry, and the marketplace of ideas. |
| Abstract | "Christianity and Intellectual Inquiry explores the relationship between faith and learning in Christian history and in the thinking processes of contemporary Americans. The first half of the book describes the two-thousand-year history of diverse Christian reflections on faith and learning in Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, and Pentecostal communities. It then moves on to explain how standard presumptions about connecting faith and learning changed over the past century when the American intellectual ethos shifted from epistemological universalism to multiculturalism to its current prioritization of individual identity. During the same time period, American perceptions of faith evolved, moving away from a focus on doctrines and dogma toward an emphasis on personal hopes, dreams, values, loyalties, and convictions. The second half of the book introduces the concept of pilgrimage as a frame for thinking appropriately and constructively in our present age of identity. Pilgrim thinkers of all identities, Christians included, are committed to thinking and living as self-aware participants in the marketplace of ideas, learning from each other as they proceed on their own intellectual journeys. Four specific pathways of pilgrimage thinking-attentiveness, contemplation, proclamation, and compassion-are given special attention because of their deep roots in both Christianity and American higher education. Greater awareness of faith's influence on thinking and familiarity with the four pilgrimage pathways point all Americans, regardless of their identities, toward more collegial and productive modes of intellectual engagement"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Jacobsen, Douglas G. (Douglas Gordon), 1951- Christianity and intellectual inquiry 1 New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] 9780197820360 |
| LCCN | 2025021556 |
| ISBN | 9780197820346 |
| ISBN | 0197820344 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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