A great debate about the classics took place in American higher education in the 19th century. The debate was about the dominant role of the classics (then), to the exclusion of most other fields. Eric Adler, associate professor of classics at the University of Maryland at College Park, analyzes that debate to look at the humanities today in
The Battle of the Classics: How a 19th-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today (Oxford University Press). He argues that learning the right lessons about the debate (and no, that s not just to read the Latin and Greek classics) can inform today s debates about the humanities and lead to a more global sense of the humanities.
Karen Swallow Prior and Joseph Hammond join RNS
Religion News Service (RNS) is pleased to announce Karen Swallow Prior has joined the publication as a columnist covering faith and culture. Her inaugural column, “Still Baptist. Still evangelical,” focuses on the persistence of her faith through difficult days. RNS also welcomes Joseph Hammond as its newest reporter primarily covering Islam. His first two stories reported on the NFL’s first Muslim head coach and Muslim actors making Golden Globe history.
Prior is a research professor of English and Christianity and culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the author of numerous books, including
I was not expecting the question, since for months she had repeatedly instructed me to focus on the immediate, an instruction I found easy to obey. The protracted pain of a marriage that floundered and failed when I was in my twenties had excised the delusion that the most important elements of my future were under my control. But now Sister pressed me to think ahead: “It wasn’t time before, but now it’s time. What are you going to do with this education of yours?”
To my complete surprise, the answer was out of my mouth before I had time to consider: “I need to teach, preach, and exercise a pastoral ministry.”
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