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Article: Dear Chris: Letters on the Life of Faith.(Book Review)
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- Baptist History and Heritage
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- March 22, 1999
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 Baptist History and Heritage Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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By Warren McWilliams. Waco: Baylor University Press, 1999. 186 pp.
The call to be a university professor is unique. Even more unique is the call to teach religion in the context of a religious university. Many students who come to church-related universities do so with some background in the basic elements of the Christian faith. The religion professor must explore the intricacies of the Christian faith while often the student sees this type of study as either superfluous or erroneous. Academic approaches to the Christian faith and Scripture are often seen to be unneeded for the Christian student. Naively, students believe that since they know Jesus, they do not ...