The Mind in Another Place: My Life as a Scholar Johnson Luke Timothy
The Mind in Another Place: My Life as a Scholar Johnson Luke Timothy A witness to the peculiar way of being that is the scholar'sLuke Timothy Johnson is one of the best-known and most influential New…
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The Mind in Another Place: My Life as a Scholar Johnson Luke Timothy
A witness to the peculiar way of being that is the scholar'sLuke Timothy Johnson is one of the best-known and most influential New Testament scholars of recent decades. He is as candid and unsparing about negative trends in academia as he is hopeful about the possibilities of steadfast, disciplined scholarship. In this memoir, he draws on his rich experience to invite readers into the scholar's life--its aims, commitments, and habits.In addition to sharing his own story, from childhood to retirement, Johnson reflects on the nature of scholarship more generally, showing how this vocation has changed over the past half-century and where it might be going in the future.
In two closing chapters, he discusses the essential intellectual and moral virtues of scholarly excellence, including curiosity, imagination, courage, discipline, persistence, detachment,