Many universities, founded on the principles of vigorous scholarship and steadfast Christian faith, have abandoned those roots, resulting in confusion, fragmentation, and ideological strife. This book explores the role reflective Christian faith can play in unifying the intellectual life of the university. Contributors including Jean Bethke Elshtain, Richard Hays, John Polkinghorne, Joel Carpenter, and David Lyle Jeffrey analyze the character and practices of an ideal Christian intellectual community.
Douglas Henry (1971-) was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and he grew up in and around Claremore in Rogers County. He holds a B.A. in religion from Oklahoma Baptist University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University. Currently, he serves at Baylor University in Waco, Texas as Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Honors College and Master of Brooks Residential College.
Henry's scholarship has addressed such varied writers as Plato, Boethius, Walker Percy, and John Paul II and diverse topics including divine hiddenness, doubt, freedom, and love. He also has great interest in church-related higher education, and he has co-edited three books on the subject: Faithful Learning and the Christian Scholarly Vocation (Eerdmans, 2003), Christianity and the Soul of the University: Faith as a Foundation for Intellectual Community (Baker Academic, 2005), and The Schooled Heart: Moral Formation in American Higher Education (Baylor University Press, 2007).
