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Article: Minding the faith.(Book Review)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- October 9, 2002
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How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind. By Richard T. Hughes. Eerdmans, 172 pp., $18.00.
IN THIS beautifully written, sermonic essay Richard Hughes begins by defining the virtues needed for sound scholarship and good teaching: devotion to the rigorous search for truth, willingness sympathetically to entertain diverse viewpoints, unfettered creativity and imagination, and allegiance to critical thinking applied to all perspectives, including one's own. He proceeds to offer a theological line of reasoning to demonstrate that "Christian scholars can embrace the very best pedagogical practices and the highest standards of scholarship and do so precisely ...