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Scripture and the Humanities / Intrinsic Goods of the Once and Future University

Speaker(s): David Jeffrey
Date: Feb. 26, 2008
Length: 2:12:34
Product ID: RGDL3805E

Description

This is a set of two talks, one given at Regent College and the other at the University of British Columbia. The first talk is a Christian Thought and Culture Lecture. The development of the university, and in particular the humanities disciplines as we know them owes more to the cultivation of biblical learning than classical learning.
The second talk considers that many scholars are now speaking and writing books to suggest that the university is now in what some consider an intellectual identity crisis (e.g. Harry Lewis, Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future? or C. John Sommerville, The Decline of the Secular University). Jeffrey demonstrates how the ancient Judeo-Christian scriptures, together with its traditions of interpretation, have substantial insights to offer such a conversation and reflection on education and its core intrinsic goods.

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