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Mark Edwards

By on July 25, 2012 in Faculty Publications

Edwards, Mark Thomas. The Right of the Protestant Left: God’s Totalitarianism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

The Right of the Protestant LeftThe Right of the Protestant Left explores the centrality of religious realignment for the development of American and global politics through the story of the ‘Christian Realists’ who led the American Protestant left after World War I. As a public theological community with transnational ties, the Realists attacked modern civilization, preached participatory democratic relations, and called for an ecumenical world Protestantism. Ultimately, in religion as well as in politics, the Realists and their associates at home and abroad proved to be the authentic religious right of their era. This valuable study thus highlights the conservative strain latent within twentieth-century American liberalism.

Jeffrey Bilbro

By on July 4, 2012 in Faculty Publications

Bilbro, Jeffrey. “Preserving “God’s Wildness” for Redemptive Baptism.” Christianity & Literature 61, no. 4 (Summer 2012): 587-622.

Abstract: An essay is presented which focuses on the belief of John Muir, member of the Disciples of Christ, in immersing himself in the Sierra by partaking in its divine natural redemption. It says that Muir preached the “gospel of glaciers” to bring people to the wild baptism where they would be cleansed by divine love. It mentions the letter written by Muir to his friend, Jeanne Carr, on the fall of man and the wonders of Redeeming Love.

Robert Woods & Diane Badzinski

By on July 2, 2012 in Faculty Publications

Woods, Robert H., Diane M. Badzinski, Janie M. Harden Fritz, and Sarah E. Yeates. “The ‘Ideal Professor’ and Gender Effects in Christian Higher Education.” Christian Higher Education 11, no. 3 (July 2012): 158–176.

Abstract: A survey was administered to 451 undergraduate students at a private liberal arts Christian university to identify students’ perceptions of the ideal professor. The survey revealed that the ideal professor places great emphasis on the integration of faith and learning, is flexible (and even easy), maintains high academic standards, encourages students, and has an adaptive teaching style. Findings also highlighted gender differences in student perception of the ideal professor. Women perceived an adaptable teaching style, encouragement, and integration of faith and learning as slightly more important than men did in defining the characteristics of an ideal professor. Implications are framed in terms of student expectations for content and relationship dimensions of learning associated with Christian colleges and universities.

Dan Runyon

By on March 25, 2012 in Faculty Publications

Bunyan, John. The Holy War: Annotated Companion to the Pilgrim’s Progress. Edited by Daniel V. Runyon. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2012.

Holy WarFour years after John Bunyan released his instantly popular journey allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress, he published The Holy War—a battle allegory and companion volume. His first book explores salvation of the individual Christian; the second portrays the battle for sanctification. While Christian struggles with questions about assurance of salvation, the collective Mansoul labors with the challenges of being led by and filled with the Holy Spirit. The Pilgrim’s Progress focuses on the individual’s struggle against sin; The Holy War portrays the Church in a corporate struggle against systemic evil. Bunyan wrote that The Holy War originates in “the same heart, and head, fingers and pen” as The Pilgrim’s Progress. Both books present separate dimensions of Bunyan’s spiritual journey.

Taken together, the journey allegory and the battle allegory capture the full range and depth of the biblical message that consumed Bunyan’s imagination. He credits his own salvation to these two things: The grace of God and tenacious, continual, holy warfare. The Holy War is testimony to a spiritual battle he fought, and won. This edition provides annotations that clarify Bunyan’s first edition language and message for readers in a post-Puritan world.