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Title: Scholarship


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Scholarship Spirituality
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  • Robert C. Newman

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Scholarship Spirituality
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  • Let's begin by defining each term.
  • Scholarship
  • A manner of living that seeks to discover and
    understand the facts in some field of academic
    study.
  • Spirituality
  • A manner of living which seeks to conform oneself
    to the standards set by the Holy Spirit in
    Scripture.

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Some TensionsScholarship Spirituality
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Some Tensions
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  • Neglect of spirituality
  • Ignoring or isolating one or the other
  • Misuse of consensus
  • The danger of positivism

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Neglect of Spirituality
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  • We may become dominated by our field of study to
    the detriment of things needed for spirituality
  • An academic version of becoming a workaholic.
  • We cannot devote all of our time to our
    studies/research.
  • We cannot do this be faithful to our Lord.
  • This may mean we won't advance as far in our
    field as we might otherwise have done.
  • Yet some spiritual people have gone to the top of
    their fields
  • Joseph, Moses, Daniel

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Ignoring or Isolating
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  • We may try to solve complex questions of
    interaction between our academic field and
    Scripture by ignoring one or the other, or by
    isolating one from the other.
  • Perhaps we misunderstand the Bible here.
  • Perhaps we wish to get along better with our
    academic colleagues, or with our fellow
    believers.
  • Our responsibility is to be fair, both to the
    academic field and to the Bible, whether this
    position is popular or not.

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Consensus
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  • We may tend to identify scholarship with the
    consensus of scholars in our field
  • or spirituality with the consensus of
    Christians.
  • We must instead go back to the data in both
    cases.
  • Again, this may mean loss of advancement in one
    place or the other.

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Positivism
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  • We may tend to identify scholarship with some
    sort of positivism
  • We must believe nothing we cannot observe or test
    academically.
  • But some problems may only be soluble by
    revelation.
  • Others may have more than one possible solution,
    but the data is currently insufficient to make
    scholarship better than a guess.

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Some ReinforcementsScholarship Spirituality
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Some Reinforcements
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  • Spirituality frees one from fear of other humans.
  • The best scholarship is done when peer pressure
    can be ignored.
  • Scholarship is invaluable for understanding what
    Scripture really says.
  • We need to know the original languages.
  • We need to know the culture and writing
    conventions of the original authors audience.

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Some Reinforcements
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  • Spirituality gives us an absolute basis for
    diligence, honesty, truth-seeking, etc.
  • Without these, scholarship cannot flourish.
  • Scholarship emphasizes
  • freedom to investigate,
  • importance of believing only what is true.
  • Both of these are needed to advance in
    spirituality to avoid two common problems in
    the modern church
  • Excessive dogmatism,
  • Refusal to practice doctrinal discipline.

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Conclusions
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  • Christians need both spirituality and
    scholarship.
  • Understood as a general method (rather than as an
    academic profession), scholarship is a subset of
    Christian morality.

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The End
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  • If we seek to be scholars,
  • may we be spiritual scholars.

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