A question of loyalty ...

A New Direction for Christian Historians? | Books and Culture. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The worry is that by seeking success with that audience, Christian historians have failed to be sufficiently Christian. Again, the question is one of loyalty to one's fundamental commitments, but this time it is commitment to Christ that matters. One contributor to the book finds it "difficult to accept the ease with [which] colleagues at Christian colleges seem to regard the status, respectability, power and glory … that [come] with 'making it'" in academia, and wants "to figure out if the 'foolishness' of the Gospel … offers any insights into what a Christian intellectual might look like."