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The mind in another place : my life as a scholar / Luke Timothy Johnson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2022Description: x, 268 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780802880116
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 220.609 23
LOC classification:
  • BS2351.J64 A3 2022 17825
Other classification:
  • BIO018000 | REL067070
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Table of ContentsIntroduction -- Part One: Becoming a Scholar -- 1. Childhood -- 2. Adolescence -- 3. Monastic Life -- 4. Doctoral Studies -- Part Two: Being a Scholar -- 5. Yale Divinity School -- 6. Indiana University -- 7. Emory University (1992-2001) -- 8. Emory University (2001-2016) -- 9. Scholarship in Academic Retirement -- Part Three: A Scholar's Virtues -- 10. Intellectual Virtues -- 11. Moral Virtues -- Epilogue.
Summary: "A memoir by Luke Timothy Johnson in which Johnson reflects on the life experiences that made him a scholar and on the general requirements of scholarship"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "A witness to the peculiar way of being that is the scholar's Luke Timothy Johnson is one of the best-known and most influential New Testament scholars of recent decades. In this memoir, he draws on his rich experience to invite readers into the scholar's life-its aims, commitments, and habits. In addition to sharing his own story, from childhood to retirement, Johnson reflects on the nature of scholarship more generally, showing how this vocation has changed over the past half-century and where it might be going in the future. He is as candid and unsparing about negative trends in academia as he is hopeful about the possibilities of steadfast, disciplined scholarship. In two closing chapters, he discusses the essential intellectual and moral virtues of scholarly excellence, including curiosity, imagination, courage, discipline, persistence, detachment, and contentment. Johnson's robust defense of the scholarly life-portrayed throughout this book as a generative process of discovery and disclosure-will inspire both new and seasoned scholars, as well as anyone who reads and values good scholarship. But The Mind in Another Place ultimately resonates beyond the walls of the academy and speaks to matters more universally human: the love of knowledge and the lifelong pursuit of truth"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Table of ContentsIntroduction -- Part One: Becoming a Scholar -- 1. Childhood -- 2. Adolescence -- 3. Monastic Life -- 4. Doctoral Studies -- Part Two: Being a Scholar -- 5. Yale Divinity School -- 6. Indiana University -- 7. Emory University (1992-2001) -- 8. Emory University (2001-2016) -- 9. Scholarship in Academic Retirement -- Part Three: A Scholar's Virtues -- 10. Intellectual Virtues -- 11. Moral Virtues -- Epilogue.

"A memoir by Luke Timothy Johnson in which Johnson reflects on the life experiences that made him a scholar and on the general requirements of scholarship"-- Provided by publisher.

"A witness to the peculiar way of being that is the scholar's Luke Timothy Johnson is one of the best-known and most influential New Testament scholars of recent decades. In this memoir, he draws on his rich experience to invite readers into the scholar's life-its aims, commitments, and habits. In addition to sharing his own story, from childhood to retirement, Johnson reflects on the nature of scholarship more generally, showing how this vocation has changed over the past half-century and where it might be going in the future. He is as candid and unsparing about negative trends in academia as he is hopeful about the possibilities of steadfast, disciplined scholarship. In two closing chapters, he discusses the essential intellectual and moral virtues of scholarly excellence, including curiosity, imagination, courage, discipline, persistence, detachment, and contentment. Johnson's robust defense of the scholarly life-portrayed throughout this book as a generative process of discovery and disclosure-will inspire both new and seasoned scholars, as well as anyone who reads and values good scholarship. But The Mind in Another Place ultimately resonates beyond the walls of the academy and speaks to matters more universally human: the love of knowledge and the lifelong pursuit of truth"-- Provided by publisher.

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