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INDEX Foreword ..................................................................................................................................................................2 A Call to Serious Christian Scholarship........................................................................................................................4 Presidential Profile......................................................................................................................................................5 Faculty Profile ............................................................................................................................................................9 Index of Faculty ......................................................................................................................................................10 Books ......................................................................................................................................................................12 Articles and Book Chapters ......................................................................................................................................14 Exhibits and Performances........................................................................................................................................25 Presentations............................................................................................................................................................26 Grant Activities ........................................................................................................................................................40 Reviews ..................................................................................................................................................................42 Dissertations ............................................................................................................................................................44 Union University Center for Faculty Development • 731-661-5381 • www.uu.edu/centers/faculty/ 1 FOREWORD ince becoming Union University’s provost early in Union’s students. A great stimulus for undergraduate S 1998 nothing has been more satisfying than watch- and graduate research across the Union University ing President Dockery cast the vision and set the pace for student body has been realized. The meshing of the an enhanced teacher-scholar role among the faculty scholarship of teaching with the scholarship of research community. And nothing has been more exciting than yields a dynamic learning environment for the bright watching the Union University faculty embrace that young students so characteristic of Union’s student body. vision and respond. Active faculty scholars encourage students in the pursuit That same year a new Center for Faculty Development of quality and meaningful research projects, faculty was established and Dr. Kina Mallard was selected as its leading the way and encouraging students to follow director. The Center has been a primary vehicle for and as torch bearers for the future. Student research is a catalyst to the significant increase in faculty scholarship one of the features of Union’s learning environment at Union. Capable scholarship in key areas has been that make this place so special. a characteristic of Union’s faculty for many years. It is my distinct honor to showcase the work of my Now wide-spread, Christianly-informed excellence in colleagues in Union University: A Review of Faculty scholarship is found in every discipline and every depart- Scholarship 1998-2001. Believing that the Christian ment across our campus. Securing funding for faculty intellectual tradition calls for rigorous Christian thinking scholarship from first The Pew Charitable Trusts and more in all areas, the Union University faculty are engaged recently The Teagle Foundation has been quite helpful. Yet in scholarship that is making a difference in the world it has been the university’s commitment to build resources around us, helping us to see more clearly, question more by establishing the Center and increasing development knowledgeably, and think more Christianly. In four years monies available to each faculty member that has been time the tide has changed. The future looks bright. This the key. faculty is now setting the pace for strong Christian Union University: A Review of Faculty Scholarship scholarship. 1998-2001 both recognizes and celebrates four years of faculty scholarship at Union University. This publication, which is widely representative but not completely exhaus- tive of the work of the Union faculty, begins by high- lighting the scholarship of our university’s leader, Union’s Carla D. Sanderson 15th president David S. Dockery, theologian, author Provost, Union University and speaker. Included here are published books, book chapters, peer-reviewed publications and presentations and externally funded research grants. One of the most important results of increased faculty scholarship at Union is the enhanced opportunity afforded 2 A CALL TO SERIOUS CHRISTIAN SCHOLARSHIP call to serious Christian Scholarship is a call to A “take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Cor. 10:5). Paul’s words call us toward a wholehearted devotion to Christ — not just with our hearts but with our minds as well. It is a call to think Christianly. As we enter this new century we need more than just novel ideas and new delivery systems; we need distinctively Christian thinking or as T. S. Eliot puts it: “to think in Christian categories.” This means being able to see life and learning from a Christian vantage point; it means thinking with the mind of Christ. The beginning place for a call to serious Christian scholarship points us to a unity of knowledge, a seamless whole because “in Him all things hold together” (Col. 1:15-18) for all true knowledge flows from the One Creator to His one creation. Thus, specific bodies of knowledge relate to each other not just because scholars work together in community, not just because interdiscipli- nary work broadens our knowledge, but because all truth has its source in God, composing a single universe of knowledge. Christian scholarship calls for us to integrate faith thoroughly with our research within our various disci- plines. Drawing on the long Christian tradition to do so, we can begin to restore coherence to learning. This will help move us toward the development and construction of a convictional world and life view by which we can see, learn, and interpret the world from the perspective of God’s revelation to us. Serious scholarship — mentioned in cliché terms such as “the search for knowledge” and “the quest for truth” — must not be described carelessly or flippantly. When we speak of scholarship from a Christian perspective we speak of more than scholarship done by Christians. 3 A CALL TO SERIOUS CHRISTIAN SCHOLARSHIP Rather we speak of a passion for learning based on the calls for rigorous thinking, careful research, and thought- So now, like in the days of the Corinthian correspon- supposition that all truth is God’s truth. Thus, as Christian ful publication. Christian scholarship is far broader than dence, our minds and our scholarship are ensnared by scholars related together in a learning community, we are biblical and theological studies, though these disciplines the many challenges and variegated viewpoints in today’s to seek to take every thought captive to Christ. help provide the framework for serious intellectual academy. Like Paul and others on whose shoulders we It is not just the apostle Paul who gives us guidance on wrestling with other areas across the curriculum such as stand, we must combine the intellectual with the moral the subject of Christian scholarship. Justin and Irenaeus literary, philosophical, scientific, historical, technological, and the spiritual. This that is the essence of serious were probably the first in post-apostolic times to articulate and social issues. Christian scholarship: bringing every thought captive to the need for faith-informed scholarship. In third-century A Christian worldview provides the framework for the Lordship of Jesus Christ in order to serve and edify Alexandria, both Clement and Origin instructed their Christian scholarship in any and every field. This world- others. That is a high calling indeed as we move forward converts not only in doctrine but in science, literature and view, which grows out of the exhortation to take every and faithfully into the 21st Century. philosophy. In the fifth century Augustine penned, in On thought captive to Christ, begins with the affirmation Christian Doctrine, the thoughts that every true and good of God as Creator and Redeemer, for the dominating Christian should understand that wherever we may find principle of Christian scholarship is not merely soterio- Soli Deo Gloria truth it is the Lord’s. logical but is cosmological as well.We thus recognize This legacy may be traced across the centuries and in the sovereignty of the triune God over the whole cosmos, almost every culture, for wherever the Gospel has been in all spheres and kingdoms, visible and invisible. received, the academy and Christian scholarship have In the large majority of our institutions it is teaching David S. Dockery followed. This legacy can be traced through Bernard, that is rightly prized and prioritized, but we also need President Erasmus, Luther, Calvin, Knox, Melancthon,