college is an immense method that our society prepares execs and leaders in schooling, well-being, executive, company, arts, church—all elements of our communal lives. even supposing the beginnings of the 1st universities have been Christian, academia has turn into increasingly more adrift from those foundations. we've misplaced not just the union, the interwovenness of theological and educational understandings, but in addition the relational and communal means of studying which teaches scholars to be other-centered of their practice.

''A Glimpse of the dominion in Academia'' tells the tale of the social sciences division of a small Christian collage that took heavily the mandate to organize their scholars to be salt and lightweight in an earthly society. listed here are tales of the transformation in scholars’ lives, in addition to description of school room practices, and the epistemological concept at the back of these practices. The booklet explores educational understanding, Christian worldview, relational epistemology, internal understanding, and wisdom—all methods of figuring out Christian collage may still educate. the method of transformation, the context of group, and the larger photograph of life’s trip and altering pictures of God are pointed out as vital elements of country lifestyles in academia. The institutional atmosphere is additionally critiqued with the popularity that strength practices have to align with the dominion of the Christ who emptied himself.

“This e-book is a call for participation to a different method of seeing, however it is usually dense in substitute epistemological resources. . . . This publication might be learn via all these concerned with pupil studying and management. it may well even be learn through any instructor or administrator, university or establishment hoping to make studying extra open and transformational in any self-discipline or context.”
—Nicola Hoggard Creegan, Lecturer in Theology, Laidlaw College

“[This] isn't easily a how-to ebook. it's a booklet that might circulation you right into a extra profound means of interpreting and getting into the gospel tale. it's a booklet marked by means of a theology of the dominion or reign of God and a holistic imaginative and prescient of God’s redemptive and therapeutic reasons for our global. it's a ebook additionally formed by means of the more moderen liberation and feminist theologies. in addition, it's a e-book marked via profound spirituality. . . . it really is my wish that this publication could be a precursor of what's to come back, that it'll element the best way for others to take the form in their existence in Christ into the general public sphere.”
—From the Foreword by way of Charles Ringma, Emeritus Professor, Regent College

Irene Alexander is a psychologist and religious director. She lectures at Christian historical past university and the Australian Catholic college in Brisbane, Australia, and in non secular course formation. She is the writer of numerous books, together with Dancing with God: Transformation via courting (2007) and practising the Presence of Jesus (2011).