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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 268 EAN: 9781581349399 ISBN: 1581349394 Label: Crossway Books Manufacturer: Crossway Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: October 05, 2007 Publisher: Crossway Books Studio: Crossway Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: In 1980, Dr. Charles Malik gave a memorable and poignant address at the dedication of the Billy Graham Center on the campus of Wheaton College. He presented a challenge in two tasks: save the soul and save the mind. Malik believed that in order to evangelize the academic world, evangelism must learn to speak at an academic level. He called people to raise their level of thinking and sharpen their minds to this end. In this book several contributors seek to apply this message to our current context. It is a call to academics especially to integrate Christian faith with their disciplines and to be intellectual in their faith for the purpose of communicating at the level of their peers and students. “Readers will come away strengthened in their faith and in their ability to use the mind faithfully for the service of God. Read, ponder, and read again.” Mark A. Noll Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame “This is a wake-up call that should be read by all Christians interested in the world of ideas and apprenticeship to the Lord Jesus.” J. P. Moreland Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University “Every Christian professor in every academic discipline should read every essay in this book.” James W. Sire Author of The Universe Next Door and Habits of the Mind “An excellent job of describing the current status and dreams of the Malik vision.” Henry F. Schaefer III Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry, University of Georgia “This does justice to the dignity and brilliance of Malik and to the greatness of Jesus Christ as our world’s only hope.” Kelly Monroe Kullberg Author of Finding God at Harvard “An outstanding group of scholars offer stimulating insights and interesting nuances on the Two Tasks.” Stan W. Wallace National Director, InterVarsity’s Faculty Ministry “This generation must take Malik’s challenge seriously. Then we will fulfill Malik’s call and this volume’s challenge.” Daryl McCarthy President, International Institute for Christian Studies “Readers will be inspired to give their lives to integrating faithful Christian living and witness.” Gregory E. Ganssle Yale University, Rivendell Institute “Read this call for courage, and may God’s scholars take up the charge in our generation.” Lon Allison Director, Billy Graham Center; Associate Professor, Wheaton Graduate School Average Rating:
 Rating: - A call to armsIn September 1980 Charles Malik gave a powerful talk on the need for evangelicals to reclaim the mind, and to reclaim the universities. It was published that year in a brief book called The Two Tasks. A century after his birth, a number of Christian scholars, including his son, commemorates Malik and his stirring address. Thus this book. Seven Christian thinkers, including Peter Kreeft and William Lane Craig, remind us of the crucial importance of what Charles Malik said on that September ... Read More Rating: - Required Reading for Christians in AcademiaI got the book when it came out in October. Since then I have read it three times, lent it out to 4 different people, and led a small group examining the book. The book is well balanced with the philosophical and abstract characteristics for the integration of faith and learning and for evangelism in academia, and with practical and specific methods for accomplishing this. Not only this, but the contributors come from a wide variety of disciplines and each has a different slant to their ... Read More Rating: - Two Tasks of the Christian Scholar...Paul Gould's Ch 1, is fabulousI got up at 3am to turn down the heat in the house and saw the book on my desktop. I read the foreword and chapter one. Chapter one is worth the price of the book. I loved the way Paul Gould unpacks the difference between 'agnostic pluralism' (merely being allowed a seat at the table of philosophical relativism) versus the 'committed pluralism' (what I believe Os Guiness calls a 'principled pluralism) which the book attributes to L. Newbigin. I loved the C.S. Lewis quotes throughout the ... Read More Rating: - Outstanding resource for Christian scholarsThis is an outstanding collection of essays centered around the theme of Charles Malik's 1980 address regarding redeeming the soul and the mind. It seeks to encourage Christian academics to glorify Christ in the secular university both in their academic research and their spiritual lives. Far from proffering a simplistic vision of the calling of a Christian academic, the book presents a deeply thoughtful, godly and concerned critique of the secular academy and how Christian scholars might successfully navigate ... Read More Rating: - The ImperativeThe imperative for the Christian thinker is to integrate being a Christian with living and working in the academic world. A decade ago Should God Get Tenure? explored the legitimacy and participation of the Christian in the academic world. In The Two Tasks of the Christian Scholar, William Lane Craig and Paul M. Gould, with a cadre of academics, take the work of Charles Malik and propose the place and participation of the Christian in the academy. What they propose is specifically Christian, without compromise ... Read More 
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