Issue: Summer 2012 | Posted: June 18, 2012

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Dockery to edit book series

Union University President David S. Dockery has been named the editor of a new series of books designed for Christian students and others on college and university campuses.

In Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual Tradition: A Guide for Students, published by Crossway, Dockery and other experts argue that vibrant, world-changing Christianity is not anti-intellectual but assumes a long tradition of vigorous Christian thinking and a commitment to the integration of faith and scholarship.

This integration, Dockery says, is essential to the preparation of the next generation of leaders in the church, the academy and the world.

The first book in the series, The Great Tradition of Christian Thinking: A Student’s Guide, co-written by Dockery and Timothy George, founding dean of Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School, was released this spring. Four other books in the series will also be released in 2012, including The Liberal Arts: A Student’s Guide, by Gene C. Fant Jr., Union’s vice president for academic administration and Political Thought: A Student’s Guide, by Hunter Baker, dean of instruction at Union.

Additional books in the series on other academic subjects are expected to be published in 2013 and 2014.