The Challenge
There was a time when vital Christian faith and a passionate love for learning and the arts were viewed as eminently compatible. The names Bach and Mendelssohn, Dante and Dostoevski, Newton and Pascal, Rembrandt and El Greco are but illustrative of a long line of Christian scholars and artists for whom faith and vocation were both intimately and fruitfully combined.
In stark contrast, Christian scholars and artists now find themselves largely isolated from the cultural mainstream and hard-pressed to defend their historic and legitimate interest in the effecting and integration of faith and culture. The consequences have been disastrous, not only for the Christian scholar and artist, but, more importantly, for both the church and the university.
The overwhelming majority of Christian undergraduate and graduate students attend secular institutions of higher learning. Most are painfully aware of the non-existence of any mainstream expression of Christian intellectual and artistic life that would engage prevailing world views on their own ground. Never has the Christian mind been more in need of finding its voice, nor the Christian soul more in need of rediscovering the language of imagination, with which to communicate its vision to a largely secularized generation.
from CS Lewis.Org...
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maybe they could turn to Buddhism , practice more Yoga and depend less on miracles, myths and magic, and people rising from the dead ?
Maybe become Vegetarians ?
Admit animals too, also have souls ?
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