Teaching the Bible in the Liberal Arts Classroom
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This collection of pedagogical essays reflects the practical experience of instructors who have spent years teaching biblical studies successfully to undergraduates at liberal arts colleges.
Teaching biblical studies in the undergraduate liberal arts classroom poses many challenges. Do biblical studies deserve a place at a secular liberal arts college? In church-affiliated colleges, should courses in Bible toe the denominational line? Can we claim that biblical studies advance the goals of liberal education, whatever we might think they are?
On a more practical level, how can an instructor engage the attention of students who are taking a course in biblical studies only to fulfill a requirement? How best to begin with students from non-religious backgrounds who begin a course with no real knowledge of the Bible at all? How best to deal with students who already think they know what the Bible is all about, and resist any ideas or approaches that might threaten their ideas?
This collection of pedagogical essays reflects the practical experience of instructors who have spent years teaching biblical studies successfully to undergraduates at liberal arts colleges. The essays address both methodological approaches and specific classroom strategies for teaching biblical studies effectively in a way that advances the skills of thinking and expression that are essential to a liberal arts education. The product of several years of conversation among working professors from an array of liberal arts colleges, these essays offer insights and inspiration for biblical studies instructors who work in a very specific and demanding academic environment.
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| Table of Contents | PART I: BIBLICAL STUDIES IN THE LIBERAL ARTS MATTHEW C. BALDWIN SUSANNE SCHOLZ STAN HARSTINE and PHILLIP WISELY GLENN S. HOLLAND MURRAY JOSEPH HAAR and ANNA MADSEN CHRISTIAN BRADY MARGARET P. COWAN SHARON BETSWORTH BENJAMIN WHITE PART II: PEDAGOGICAL THEORY AND BIBLICAL STUDIES COURSES SHANE KIRKPATRICK JANET S. EVERHART J. BRADLEY CHANCE ALISON SCHOFIELD BRYAN D. BIBB PART III: CASE STUDIES JONATHAN DAVID LAWRENCE JANET EVERHART AMY C. COTTRILL CARL TONEY MARGARET E. RAMEY JANE S. WEBSTER RUSSELL ARNOLD RODNEY K. DUKE SUSAN E. HYLEN |
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Phillip Sherman, Review of Biblical Literature. –
[A] … fantastic collection that demonstrates clearly how much very good teaching and learning is taking place in classrooms across the country. I humbly suggest that every graduate program in biblical studies add this work … to their required reading list for students.