Issue: Summer 2012 | Posted: June 18, 2012

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Union launches new academic journal

Renewing Minds: A Journal of Christian Thought made its debut in spring 2012 with six major articles focused on Christian higher education.

“This is not like an academic journal in the sense that it is written just for other academics,” said Hunter Baker, dean of instruction at Union and one of the journal’s senior editors. “This is an attempt for academics to make their ideas accessible to a broader public.”

C. Ben Mitchell, the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union and also a senior editor of the journal, said “Renewing Minds” will showcase the best of Union scholarship. We think that the journal will enable us to do that, as well as be able to publish others as well.”

The theme for the first issue is “Christian higher education,” with articles from Union University professors Scott Huelin (“Religio et Eruditio”), Jennifer Gruenke (“Faith and Science: Hard Questions”) and Baker (“The State of Christian Higher Education”), as well as Mark Schwehn, provost of Valparaiso University (“The Liberal Arts”), and Paul House, professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School (“Making Christian Minds”).

In the introduction to the journal, Union University President David S. Dockery said the articles “reflect well the key aspects of the Christian intellectual tradition.”

J. Michael Garrett is the review editor, while Jonathan Dockery is the managing editor and Sarah Dockery is the production editor.

Those who would like to subscribe can do so visiting uu.edu/journals/renewingminds