Christianity challenges the university
(All cultures have their gods, and the god of secular cult...)
All cultures have their gods, and the god of secular culture is Man. In secular universities today every value including knowledge is subordinated to that god.
This poses a dilemma for Christian professors in these universities. To speak out and oppose such values is to go against the academic grain. To remain silent is to confirm for the student multitude that Man is God and that God is irrelevant.
Five senior professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, taking up the challenge to speak out, sponsored a series of public lectures in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. They wanted to demonstrate to the campus community that Christian faith, in opposing strictly secular values, is not anti- intellectual mysticism. Rather than undermining academic endeavor, it plunges them more deeply into intellectual inquiry. More importantly, the Christian faith undergirds a proper understanding of who we are as human beings and what our task is as students, scholars and teachers.
Peter Wilkes, professor of nuclear acid metallurgical engineering, poses the Christian world view as a radical alternative to secular humanism. Wayne M. Becker, professor of botany, contrasts the secular and Christian views of human nature. J. David Richardson, professor of economics, confronts current economic dogmas. Keith Schoville, professor of Hebrew and Semitic studies, summarizes the evidence for the reliability of scriptural documents. A. A. MacKinney, professor of medicine, outlines the Christian notion of a who person and critiques the contemporary models of modern medicine. This book is the record of what these five Christian faculty members did to confront the university community with the truth of the Christian faith.
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