Center for Faculty Development

Appendix D: Faith & Knowledge Questions

Found in Scholarship and Professional Development > Mentoring

1. What are the current critical questions being asked in your discipline and are they worth asking?

2. What are the discipline-related questions you are asking that no one else is asking?

3. What are some questions in your discipline that cannot be addressed without bringing the two worlds of faith and knowledge together?

4. What are the hopes and dreams of your discipline and how can you work to redeem them?

5. Do you come to your discipline asking “what does this work tell me about larger Biblical truths like creation, fall or redemption?” 

6. Can we practice stewardship through teaching and research by looking at creation, valuing it as God does and developing what is there?

7. How does your discipline reveal the human condition in all its beauty and awfulness for general understanding?

8. What is good, true, and beautiful in your discipline?

9. How has Christianity affected the history of your discipline?

10. Redemption gives value, contemplate the value of your discipline.

11. What are some examples of inadequate perspectives on your discipline that groan for redemption?

12. C. S. Lewis states “What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christian’s on other subjects with their Christianity latent.”  How is this part of our calling to the academy?

13. What do faculty need to know in order to engage students in dialogue about the Christian faith and knowledge in their content area?

14. Do you have a Biblical framework to raise your own issues in your discipline and ask your own questions?