INTELLECTUAL HEALTH
I have discovered an unfortunate truth: If I do not make time to think well, I will not think well. The other half of the unfortunate truth is that, as a doctoral student, thinking well is a big part of my job description.
Even with a fairly well-stocked tool box, courtesy of Issler, Sire,...
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INTELLECTUAL HEALTH
A Christian intellect is a human mind, functioning well in relation to Christ and for the good of the church.
In Klaus Issler’s class, Philosophical Issues in Educational Studies, one of the final projects was outlining our Intellectual Cultivation Plan, describing what we will do during the doctoral program and beyond to continue intellectual...
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Thinking well depends on rest and play.
“The best and freshest thinking often takes place when the mind is at ease, not trying to think but simply, say, paying attention or reflecting, not so much pursuing ideas down endless corridors as letting ideas pursue us, being receptive, letting reality come to us” (80).
Thinking well depends...
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Apart from submission to the one true Lord, the freedom within a learning context and the freedom resulting from honed skills and knowledge are illusions.
If this is all there is, if existence is merely the span from birth to death, then what is the point? Certainly, there is a flow of legacies...
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I’ve spent many hours in the past few days, reading about creating community in distance education. The basic consensus seems to be that it is crucial, doable, and difficult.
In all this, the most amazing thing is how secular educators understand what many Christian educators miss: we are necessarily communal.
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Some knowledge is learned through practice, applying mind and body to mental and physical skills, until they are nearly hardwired.
In the year plus that TNBS has been studying Isaiah, we have slowly developed a communal study method that fits us as individuals and community.
What skills are you learning?
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Propositional knowledge is supported by good evidence, is rational, and makes sense. It corresponds to the way things actually are and we live our lives trusting its truth.
Early in ministry, facts were everything. Ephesians taught me relationship is as important as facts. The Sanctify calendar reflects this corrected knowledge.
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Christianity is a knowledge tradition and all who follow Christ are responsible for its accuracy and continued growth. There are two law we must obey as we guard and expand knowledge: the laws of love and reason. To disobey either is to make oneself a fool.
What are you teaching/learning?
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Lately, I’ve been thinking about thinking. In fact, over on Laura’s Writings, I’m on my second batch of thinking terms for the Tangentizing Dictionary.
As I finished the first round a few weeks ago, I immediately began to wonder what thinking might look like in community. For me, as always, wondering begins with definitions (practical...
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We’ve all heard the analogies: the Lone Ranger had Tonto, a coal taken out of the fire dies, no man is an island. These are surely overused. But they are also true, for “it is not good for the human to be alone” (Gen 2:18).
Spiritual growth is not exception. In his article, “A Model...
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