Books Discussed:McFague, Sallie. Literature and the Christian Life. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univer... more Books Discussed:McFague, Sallie. Literature and the Christian Life. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1966.. Speaking in Parables: A Study in Metaphor and Theology. Philadelphia, Pa.: Fortress Press, 1975.. Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language. Philadelphia, Pa.: Fortress Press, 1982.. Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age. Philadelphia, Pa.: Fortress Press, 1987.. The Body of God: An Ecological Theology. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 1993.. Super, Natural Christians: How We Should Love Nature. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 1997.. Life Abundant: Rethinking Theology and Economy for a Planet in Peril. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2001.. A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2008.. Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2013."Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world. " (Robert Frost)In a career spanning four decades years and encompassing nine monographs, Sallie McFague has pursued a consistent set of theological questions and critical social issues, articulating strategies for linking the study of religious language to contemporary political threats ranging from nuclear annihilation (Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age, 1987) to environmental degradation (A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming, 2008) to economic collapse (Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint, 2013). While other contemporary theologians have responded to these challenges by arguing for environmental ethics, McFague reaches her conclusion (kenotic theology) from a very different intellectual trajectory.1For thirty years McFague taught at the Vanderbilt Divinity School, where she served as Carpenter Professor of Theology. For the past fourteen years, she has been a Distinguished Theologian in Residence at Vancouver School of Theology. Few scholars remain professionally active in their ninth decade of life, but blessed are the readers who have such a companion and guide.Her most recent work, Blessed Are the Consumers (2013), addresses not just theologians but clergy and fellow citizens who seek to understand how faith communities can engage with a broken world in ways that respect the gravity of the problems and the urgency of religious and spiritual convictions. While politics, economics, and ethics are never far from her purview, she avoids specific programs of reform a la Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, political parties, or the work of church organizations and NGOs. Her chapter titles are beguiling invitations to dialogue and reflection (see chapter 1, "'But Enough about Me:' What Does Augustine's Confessions Have to Do with Facebook?" and chapter 6, "'It's Not About You': Kenosis as a Way to Live").McFague has devoted her career to asking hard questions about what early Anglicans called the "godly, righteous, and sober fife" and what modem Americans just call "living well." Throughout her oeuvre she turns to the parable of the Good Samaritan to meditate on our relationship to the planet-to all of the people and forms of life on earth. Who, indeed, is my neighbor?When we consider the development and range of her scholarship, we see a theologian whose theology is grounded in timeless issues (the nature of God, creation, humanity, sin, salvation) but adapted to timely contemporaiy themes. With a finely nuanced, reflective voice, and deep sensitivity to the role of language in shaping and reflecting our world, she situates current political and economic crises in their inescapably theological context. Global warming is a theological problem; so are hunger and poverty. To borrow the tide of a recent book (2008), she has helped to create a new climate for theology. …
Btl on: fbt firsf Word A professional journalist and two high-school students tackle the same wri... more Btl on: fbt firsf Word A professional journalist and two high-school students tackle the same writing assignment. A comparison of approaches used by each writer demonstrates the use of inquiry, speculation and interpretation-elements which are essential to good reporting and improved expository writing. According to James Gray, Director of the National Writing Project, Berkeley, California: "Before the Pl.rst Word is quite simply the finest fUm on writing I have yet seen!' The mm will "open a window for teachers in despair over miserable essays written to formula. It will show what the writing process is all about!' ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION
This paper describes the development of an innovative strategy to assess how students and faculty... more This paper describes the development of an innovative strategy to assess how students and faculty perceive and accomplish the objectives of general education at Penn State. The University's general education curriculum is intended to achieve a number of educational goals, including the exploration and development of knowledge domains and skills that are consistent with, and complementary to, the learning outcomes associated with the students' major programs of study. A diverse team was assembled to evaluate three crucial aspects of general education, namely, its design, delivery and reception. The collaboration began with examination of coursetaking patterns and framing of the University Faculty Senate's expressed objectives for general education in the context of the program goals and learning outcomes for selected technical and non-technical majors. Focused interviews with students and information solicited from course instructors were then used to gain an understanding for how these stakeholders actually view their experiences and course goals/delivery mechanisms, respectively, in terms of this objectivebased matrix. A first attempt to implement an on-line methodology was made with limited success. The lessons learned shed light on the challenges and opportunities for scaling up a process that would allow efficient and widespread program assessment, across many disciplines of study, to facilitate academic advising and curricular improvement.
About Campus: Enriching the Student Learning Experience, 2002
Using technology's enormous potential to support student learning requires that we enter a ne... more Using technology's enormous potential to support student learning requires that we enter a new world—one that our students already inhabit. John Harwood and Carole Barone reflect on this and other challenges.
Dissatisfaction with teaching a high enrollment introductory statistics course led to efforts to ... more Dissatisfaction with teaching a high enrollment introductory statistics course led to efforts to restructure the course to remedy the perceived problems, including lack of student participation, an excessive drain on departmental resources, failure to take into account wide differences in student learning styles, an inability of students to apply statistics after the course, and negative attitudes of students. A cost-effective redesign of the course was implemented that incorporates a learning environment that is student-oriented, involves active student participation and hands-on experience with data analysis, uses technology to reduce costs through labor-saving techniques including low-stakes computerized testing, and sharing of resources enabled by a web site for course management and delivery of course materials. Responsibility for learning basic concepts was transferred to students and motivated by readiness assessment quizzes. The redesign led to about $125,000 in cost savings...
Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, 1993
... Page 7. The Early Essays and Ethics of Robert Boyle Edited and Annotated With an Introduction... more ... Page 7. The Early Essays and Ethics of Robert Boyle Edited and Annotated With an Introduction by John T. Harwood Southern 11linois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville This Or AADU-EDG-P06K ... After Boyle's death the portrait was presented to the Royal Society. ...
Granting that literature delights, Harwood addresses the moral questions that have been hotly deb... more Granting that literature delights, Harwood addresses the moral questions that have been hotly debated by critics for the 300 years since Restoration comedy flourished: In what way does literature teach? How do beliefs about its effects on audiences shape critics responses to and judgment of literature? Harwood begins with a survey of the major rhetorical strategies by which many critics transform themselves, at least momentarily and perhaps unconsciously, into moralists when they deal with restoration comedy. Then he places various moral responses in a broader critical context by analyzing ways in which critics have traditionally handled aesthetic problems, which inevitably entail an ethical assessment of literature.Third, he analyzes the moral dimensions of four controversial Restoration comedies: William Wycherley s "Country Wife"; Edward Ravenscroft s "London Cuckolds";" "Thomas Otway s "Souldiers Fortune";" "and Thomas Shadwell s "Squire of Alsatia.""
Makes accessible to modern readers the 17th-century rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes (15881677) and Ber... more Makes accessible to modern readers the 17th-century rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes (15881677) and Bernard Lamy (16401715) Hobbes "A Briefe of the Art "of "Rhetorique, "the first English translation of Aristotle s rhetoric, reflects Hobbes sense of rhetoric as a central instrument of self-defense in an increasingly fractious Commonwealth. In its approach to rhetoric, which Hobbes defines as that Faculty by which wee understand what will serve our turne, concerning any subject, to winne beliefe in the hearer, the "Briefe "looks forward to Hobbes great political works "De Cive "and "Leviathan." Published anonymously in France as "De l art de parler, "Lamy s rhetoric was translated immediately into English as "The Art of Speaking. "Lamy s long association with the Port Royalists made his works especially attractive to English readers because Port Royalists were engaged in a vicious quarrel with the Jesuits during the last half of the 17th century."
Books Discussed:McFague, Sallie. Literature and the Christian Life. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univer... more Books Discussed:McFague, Sallie. Literature and the Christian Life. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1966.. Speaking in Parables: A Study in Metaphor and Theology. Philadelphia, Pa.: Fortress Press, 1975.. Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language. Philadelphia, Pa.: Fortress Press, 1982.. Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age. Philadelphia, Pa.: Fortress Press, 1987.. The Body of God: An Ecological Theology. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 1993.. Super, Natural Christians: How We Should Love Nature. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 1997.. Life Abundant: Rethinking Theology and Economy for a Planet in Peril. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2001.. A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2008.. Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2013."Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world. " (Robert Frost)In a career spanning four decades years and encompassing nine monographs, Sallie McFague has pursued a consistent set of theological questions and critical social issues, articulating strategies for linking the study of religious language to contemporary political threats ranging from nuclear annihilation (Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age, 1987) to environmental degradation (A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming, 2008) to economic collapse (Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint, 2013). While other contemporary theologians have responded to these challenges by arguing for environmental ethics, McFague reaches her conclusion (kenotic theology) from a very different intellectual trajectory.1For thirty years McFague taught at the Vanderbilt Divinity School, where she served as Carpenter Professor of Theology. For the past fourteen years, she has been a Distinguished Theologian in Residence at Vancouver School of Theology. Few scholars remain professionally active in their ninth decade of life, but blessed are the readers who have such a companion and guide.Her most recent work, Blessed Are the Consumers (2013), addresses not just theologians but clergy and fellow citizens who seek to understand how faith communities can engage with a broken world in ways that respect the gravity of the problems and the urgency of religious and spiritual convictions. While politics, economics, and ethics are never far from her purview, she avoids specific programs of reform a la Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, political parties, or the work of church organizations and NGOs. Her chapter titles are beguiling invitations to dialogue and reflection (see chapter 1, "'But Enough about Me:' What Does Augustine's Confessions Have to Do with Facebook?" and chapter 6, "'It's Not About You': Kenosis as a Way to Live").McFague has devoted her career to asking hard questions about what early Anglicans called the "godly, righteous, and sober fife" and what modem Americans just call "living well." Throughout her oeuvre she turns to the parable of the Good Samaritan to meditate on our relationship to the planet-to all of the people and forms of life on earth. Who, indeed, is my neighbor?When we consider the development and range of her scholarship, we see a theologian whose theology is grounded in timeless issues (the nature of God, creation, humanity, sin, salvation) but adapted to timely contemporaiy themes. With a finely nuanced, reflective voice, and deep sensitivity to the role of language in shaping and reflecting our world, she situates current political and economic crises in their inescapably theological context. Global warming is a theological problem; so are hunger and poverty. To borrow the tide of a recent book (2008), she has helped to create a new climate for theology. …
Btl on: fbt firsf Word A professional journalist and two high-school students tackle the same wri... more Btl on: fbt firsf Word A professional journalist and two high-school students tackle the same writing assignment. A comparison of approaches used by each writer demonstrates the use of inquiry, speculation and interpretation-elements which are essential to good reporting and improved expository writing. According to James Gray, Director of the National Writing Project, Berkeley, California: "Before the Pl.rst Word is quite simply the finest fUm on writing I have yet seen!' The mm will "open a window for teachers in despair over miserable essays written to formula. It will show what the writing process is all about!' ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION
This paper describes the development of an innovative strategy to assess how students and faculty... more This paper describes the development of an innovative strategy to assess how students and faculty perceive and accomplish the objectives of general education at Penn State. The University's general education curriculum is intended to achieve a number of educational goals, including the exploration and development of knowledge domains and skills that are consistent with, and complementary to, the learning outcomes associated with the students' major programs of study. A diverse team was assembled to evaluate three crucial aspects of general education, namely, its design, delivery and reception. The collaboration began with examination of coursetaking patterns and framing of the University Faculty Senate's expressed objectives for general education in the context of the program goals and learning outcomes for selected technical and non-technical majors. Focused interviews with students and information solicited from course instructors were then used to gain an understanding for how these stakeholders actually view their experiences and course goals/delivery mechanisms, respectively, in terms of this objectivebased matrix. A first attempt to implement an on-line methodology was made with limited success. The lessons learned shed light on the challenges and opportunities for scaling up a process that would allow efficient and widespread program assessment, across many disciplines of study, to facilitate academic advising and curricular improvement.
About Campus: Enriching the Student Learning Experience, 2002
Using technology's enormous potential to support student learning requires that we enter a ne... more Using technology's enormous potential to support student learning requires that we enter a new world—one that our students already inhabit. John Harwood and Carole Barone reflect on this and other challenges.
Dissatisfaction with teaching a high enrollment introductory statistics course led to efforts to ... more Dissatisfaction with teaching a high enrollment introductory statistics course led to efforts to restructure the course to remedy the perceived problems, including lack of student participation, an excessive drain on departmental resources, failure to take into account wide differences in student learning styles, an inability of students to apply statistics after the course, and negative attitudes of students. A cost-effective redesign of the course was implemented that incorporates a learning environment that is student-oriented, involves active student participation and hands-on experience with data analysis, uses technology to reduce costs through labor-saving techniques including low-stakes computerized testing, and sharing of resources enabled by a web site for course management and delivery of course materials. Responsibility for learning basic concepts was transferred to students and motivated by readiness assessment quizzes. The redesign led to about $125,000 in cost savings...
Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, 1993
... Page 7. The Early Essays and Ethics of Robert Boyle Edited and Annotated With an Introduction... more ... Page 7. The Early Essays and Ethics of Robert Boyle Edited and Annotated With an Introduction by John T. Harwood Southern 11linois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville This Or AADU-EDG-P06K ... After Boyle's death the portrait was presented to the Royal Society. ...
Granting that literature delights, Harwood addresses the moral questions that have been hotly deb... more Granting that literature delights, Harwood addresses the moral questions that have been hotly debated by critics for the 300 years since Restoration comedy flourished: In what way does literature teach? How do beliefs about its effects on audiences shape critics responses to and judgment of literature? Harwood begins with a survey of the major rhetorical strategies by which many critics transform themselves, at least momentarily and perhaps unconsciously, into moralists when they deal with restoration comedy. Then he places various moral responses in a broader critical context by analyzing ways in which critics have traditionally handled aesthetic problems, which inevitably entail an ethical assessment of literature.Third, he analyzes the moral dimensions of four controversial Restoration comedies: William Wycherley s "Country Wife"; Edward Ravenscroft s "London Cuckolds";" "Thomas Otway s "Souldiers Fortune";" "and Thomas Shadwell s "Squire of Alsatia.""
Makes accessible to modern readers the 17th-century rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes (15881677) and Ber... more Makes accessible to modern readers the 17th-century rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes (15881677) and Bernard Lamy (16401715) Hobbes "A Briefe of the Art "of "Rhetorique, "the first English translation of Aristotle s rhetoric, reflects Hobbes sense of rhetoric as a central instrument of self-defense in an increasingly fractious Commonwealth. In its approach to rhetoric, which Hobbes defines as that Faculty by which wee understand what will serve our turne, concerning any subject, to winne beliefe in the hearer, the "Briefe "looks forward to Hobbes great political works "De Cive "and "Leviathan." Published anonymously in France as "De l art de parler, "Lamy s rhetoric was translated immediately into English as "The Art of Speaking. "Lamy s long association with the Port Royalists made his works especially attractive to English readers because Port Royalists were engaged in a vicious quarrel with the Jesuits during the last half of the 17th century."
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