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Collegium II: A Faculty Seminar on Christ, Knowledge and Wisdom

This seminar provides as an opportunity for a small group of faculty to do the critical intellectual work of considering how the Christian faith influences knowledge and learning.

Collegium II addresses the goals of The Center for Faculty Development and the mission of the University:

1. To assist faculty in becoming excellent teachers and creative and fruitful contributors to their disciplines;
2. To encourage faculty as they seek to know and love God and see their teaching, scholarship, creative work, and service as part of their Christian calling to the academic world;
3. To equip faculty for potential advancement into positions of leadership.

Seminar Objectives:

Participating faculty will:

• explore and discuss the contributions of Christian scholars to their respective disciplines;
• come to monthly meetings prepared to discuss various readings;
• learn from on-campus and off-campus invited speakers;
• create an annotated bibliography or literature review within your discipline;
• develop several critical questions or themes for further inquiry or a revised course syllabus that demonstrates how the Christian faith influences course content.

Summer Reading:

Lewis, C. S., De Descriptione Temporum Inaugural Lecture from The Chair of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, 1954. Crouch, Andy; Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, Downers Grove, InterVarsity Press, 2008.

2009- 2010 Co-facilitators:

Matt Lunsford, Professor of Mathematics
David Malone, Associate Professor of English

"What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects - with their Christianity latent."
- C.S. Lewis; Christian Apologetics