Outrageous Christian Scholars Society

General

• The Biblical Conception of the “Heart”
• Characteristics of Christian Scholars and Scholarship
• The Christian Mind
• Dallas Baptist University as an Augustinian University
• Epistemology, Objectivity, and Subjectivity
• The Incarnation of Jesus Christ
• Models of Faith and Learning in Higher Education
• What is Knowledge? Biblical/Hebraic Epistemology
• "With Their Christianity Latent," quote from C.S. Lewis

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Devotions

1. The Christian Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption
2. A Sacramental Perspective on Reality, Psalm 104, and “A Theology of Things” (Gina Bria)
3. The Creation Decree, Psalm 8, and the New Testament
4. Uncreation in the Old and New Testaments: Genesis 3 and Romans 1
5. The Incarnation of Jesus Christ
6. The Kingdom of God
7. What is Knowledge? Biblical/Hebraic Epistemology
8. The Biblical Conception of the “Heart”
9. The Biblical Doctrine of Calling and Vocation
10. Psalm 104 -A Divinely Inspired Creation or Nature Poem

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St. Augustine

• Egyptian Gold Analogy
• Introduction to De Doctrina Christiana
• Plato and Augustine Compared
• Questions for De Doctrina Christiana (Prologue, Books I and II)
• Questions for De Doctrina Christiana (Books III and IV)

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C. S. Lewis

• An Introduction to and Themes from C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man

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Martin Luther, John Milton, and the Puritans

• Study and Reading Questions

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John Henry Newman

• The Essential Propositions of Christian Education
• Implications of The Idea of a University on Christian Scholarship: Discourses I-IV
• Vision of Christian Paideia in The Idea of a University
• Quotes on end of education
• Study and Reading Questions on The Idea of a University
• Themes in John H. Newman

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Paideia

• The Greek Concept of Paideia

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Plato

• Plato and Aristotle notes
• Questions on Plato’s Republic (Books 2, 3, 7)
• Summary of Issues from Plato’s Republic

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Michael Polanyi

• Tacit Knowing, Truthful Knowing: The Life and Thought of Michael Polanyi
  A Mars Hill Audio Report
• Michael Polanyi’s Tacit Dimension and Personal Knowledge in the Natural Sciences

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Mark R. Schwehn

• Implications of Exiles from Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America

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Albert Wolters and Alexander Schmemann

• Specific Contributions of Albert Wolters’ Creation Regained and Alexander Schmemann’s For the Life of the World
• Introduction to Albert Wolters, Creation Regained: Biblical Basics For A Reformational Worldview (Eerdmans, 1985)
• Questions for Consideration on Albert Wolters, Creation Regained and Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World

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Outrageous Christian Scholars Society