The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship

First published in 1997, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship is a landmark work that offered a bold call to re-establish Christian perspectives in academia. While other defining elements of a scholar's identity, such as race or gender, are routinely welcomed as providing valued points of view, the perspectives of believing Christians are sometimes dismissed as irrelevant—or, worse, antithetical—to the scholarly enterprise. George M. Marsden argues forcefully that academia is enrich...