In recent times discussions of the place and role of universities and of theology have been a huge topic of conversation, with the likes of David Ford and others involved in the Cambridge Inter-Faith Project arguing for the importance of theology and religious studies in universities, and others like Gavin D'Costa arguing for Christian universities. Some of the major books or essays are:
John Milbank, 'The Conflict of the Faculties: Theolgoy and the Economy of the Sciences' in Faithfulness & Fortitude: In Conversation with the Theological Ethics of Stanley Hauerwas, eds. Mark Thiessen Nation and Sam Wells, pp.39-58 (T & T Clark, 2000)
Colin Gunton, 'Doing Theology in the University Today' in The Practice of Theology. A Reader, eds. Colin Gunton, Stephen Holmes and Murray Rae, pp. 441-455. (SCM, 2001)
(eds.) Andrew Walker, Jeff Astley, Leslie Francis and John Sullivan, The Idea of a Christian University: Essays on Theology and Higher Education (Paternoster, 2004)
Gavin D'Costa, Theology in the Public Square: Church, Academy and Nation (Blackwell, 2005)
(eds.) David Ford, Ben Quash and Janet Martin Soskice, Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, 2005)
John Webster, Confessing God: Essays in Christian Dogmatics II (T & T Clark, 2005)
Paul Fiddes, 'The Place of Christian Theology in the Modern University', Baptist Quarterly, 42/2 (April 2007)
Stanley Hauerwas, The State of the University: Academic Knowledges and the Knowledge of God (Blackwell, 2007)
David Ford, Christian Wisdom (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Shaping Theology (Blackwell, 2007)
There is another book of essays entirely on this topic co-edited by my pastor and Michael Budde called Conflicting Allegiances: The Church-based University in a Liberal Democratic Society (Brazos Press, 2004).
Peace,
Eric
Posted by: Eric Lee | July 01, 2007 at 12:46 AM