What's So Liberal about the Liberal Arts?

by Paul W Lewis (Editor), Martin William Mittelstadt (Editor)

Overview

FRAMEWORKS is a series dedicated to interdisciplinary studies on the integration of faith and learning. Given Jesus' command to "love God with heart, soul, mind, and strength," the time is ripe for confessional scholarship and education across the disciplines. We implore God's Spirit to change us through the great works of history and literature alongside developments in science, psychology, and economics—and all of this—through intense engagement with the Scriptures. We want to celebrate God's work across the disciplines. We seek the likes of psychologists in conversation with philosophers, ethicists with historians, biblical scholars with rhetoricians, scientists with economists, environmentalists with neurologists. As these conversations continue across the disciplines, the "framework" from which to draw our individual and collective testimonies will only enlarge. We invite you to think, behave, preach, sing, pray, research and indeed to live this multi-faceted journey with us. If indeed our stories are never complete, we invite future contributors and readers to join us in pursuit of deeper personal and collective transformation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498231442
Publisher:	Pickwick Publications
Publication date:	04/27/2016
Series:	Frameworks: Interdisciplinary Studies for Faith and Learning
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Paul W. Lewis (PhD, Baylor University) is Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Intercultural Studies, and Admissions and Program Coordinator of Intercultural Doctoral Studies at Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, MO.

Martin William Mittelstadt (PhD, Marquette University) is Professor of Biblical Studies at Evangel University in Springfield, MO. He is the author of Spirit and Suffering in Luke-Acts and Reading Luke-Acts in the Pentecostal Tradition.

Table of Contents

Series Preface ix

List of Contributors xiii

Acknowledgments xv

An Introduction to the Frameworks Series: Why Frameworks? My Storied Explanation Martin William Mittelstadi 1

Introduction: What's So Liberal about the Liberal Arts? Paul W. Lewis 7

1 Watchers: James and Twila Edwards as Models of Integrated Faith and Learning Gary Liddle 11

Historical Developments

2 Shaping Minds, Shaping Culture: The Story of Liberal Arts Education in the Middle Ages Michael Palmer 23

3 Global Pentecostal Renaissance? Reflections on Pentecostalism, Culture, and Higher Education Jeff Hittenberger 43

4 Liberal Arts and the Assemblies of God: A History and Analysis of a Strained Alliance Barry Corey 65

The Liberal Arts as Interdisciplinary Experience

5 "How Primitive!" The Modern Pentecostal Movement as a Reflection of Cultural "Primitivism" Robert Berg 85

6 "Teach me how to curse mine enemies": Subversive Female Power in Shakespeare's Richard III Diane Awbrey 107

7 Pioneering Missionary Women in Asia and the Pacific Rim Barbara Cavaness Parks 123

8 Herbert's Ratios of Psalmic Intertextuality in The Temple: A Prospectus for Further Study Nathan H. Nelson 141

9 Eat, Drink, and Include: A Theology of Hospitality in Luke-Acts and Beyond Martin William Mittelstadt 154

10 "The Truest, Least Selfish Heart": God's Childlikeness in George MacDonald's Fairy Tales LaDonna Friesen 166

11 Tolkien as Ethnographer: The Role of Culture in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Paul W. Lewis 181

The Liberal Arts in Practice

12 Study Abroad: A Transformative and Integrative Journey Robert Turnbull 203

13 Meeting at the Table: The Divine Intersection Between Writing Centers and the Discipline of Hospitality Jennifer Fenton 218

14 Complexities of Learning: From Jerusalem to Shantislan Ruth Burgess 230

Index of Authors Cited 247

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This inaugural volume of the Frameworks series marks it as a go-to set of books for those working in Christian universities. Its contributors here connect the liberal arts tradition to Christian formation in provocative and thoughtful ways, and Lewis and Mittelstadt's editorial oversight is suggestive for how interdisciplinarity will continue to facilitate the integration of Christian faith and learning in the present higher education ferment."
—Amos Yong, Professor of Theology & Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary

Editorial Reviews

"This inaugural volume of the Frameworks series marks it as a go-to set of books for those working in Christian universities. Its contributors here connect the liberal arts tradition to Christian formation in provocative and thoughtful ways, and Lewis and Mittelstadt's editorial oversight is suggestive for how interdisciplinarity will continue to facilitate the integration of Christian faith and learning in the present higher education ferment."
—Amos Yong, Professor of Theology & Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary

From the Publisher