Growing in Understanding
Devotions for Christian Academics
Growing in Understanding
Devotions for Christian Academics
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Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press
ISBN: 9781789745818
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 16/10/2025
Width: 13.5 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
'So be very careful how you live. Do not live like those who are not wise, but live wisely...'
In Ephesians 5, Paul invites every follower of Jesus to 'live wisely'. This call and challenge is particularly pertinent for those dedicated and called to lives of study and scholarship through service in the academy.
Dirk Jongkind offers these reflections to you to help bridge the gap between the daily life of academic study and the complexities of institutional and career politics, by holding out the reading of Scripture as a vital act of Christian discipleship.
Come, scholar, and read the Bible afresh - God's word directly addresses the 'occupational hazards' and opportunities that arise from working and living in the academic infrastructures of our present time.
Introduction
1. Academic life is not always easy
2. Obligations to society
3. What community means
4. About being appointed to a position
5. To become wise (I) the beginning of knowledge
6. To become wise (II), seduction
7. To become wise (III), the urgent need to chase wisdom
8. Listening to God
9. Academics and common sense
10. Discourse and power
11. Persuasion and personality
12. Simplicity and depth
13. Cliches and Isaiah 53
14. Academic exceptionalism
15. Not learning from past mistakes
16. Working with joy
17. Healthy living (I), sound thinking
18. Healthy living (II), being taught by grace
19. Healthy living (III), the good works of an academic
20. Pedagogy
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