Biola University’s Centre for Christian Thought is a great resource for Christian postgrads and academics who want to deepen their thinking about how to serve Christ in secular academia.
Here’s a taster to whet your appetite: Nicholas Wolterstorff and Alvin Plantinga on how to deal with the academic totem pole.
Plantinga’s insight is spot on and also piercing: you can tell a huge amount about someone by how they treat people below them on the totem pole.
Wolterstorff follows up with another Christian academic attitude of fundamental importance: the Christian academic will never demean anyone. As Don Carson puts it in A Call to Spiritual Reformation, the only time a Christian should put someone down is on their prayer list.
