{"quotes":[{"text":"History never repeats itself, historians do.","author":"Lee Benson","tags":["history","rhetoric","scholarship","writing"],"id":896,"author_id":"Lee+Benson"},{"text":"...The ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be 'protected' from collapsing. (p. 21).","author":"Robin R. Meyers","tags":["biblical-scholarship","faith","scholarship","science"],"id":5535,"author_id":"Robin+R.+Meyers"},{"text":"Many are the scholars who make it their professional occupation to occupy themselves in this towering edifice of culture, exploring its nook and crannies, developing their responses, making their contributions here and there, and helping to hand it on to succeeding generations. For some the temptation proves irresistible to go yet farther and make this the concern of their lives, letting society go its own sorry way while they lock themselves away in this abiding, socially transcendent cultural stronghold, acquiescing in society while pursuing Bildung. As Rotterdam burns, they study Sanskrit verb forms.","author":"Nicholas Wolterstorff","tags":["ivory-tower","scholarship","society"],"id":8432,"author_id":"Nicholas+Wolterstorff"},{"text":"Shulman argues that work that is valued is work that is presented to colleagues. The failure to make this kind of wider connection weakens the sense of community. This happens in scholarly life when such essential functions as professional service or teaching do not get discussed openly or often enough.","author":"Charles E. Glassick","tags":["academia","communication","scholarship"],"id":12152,"author_id":"Charles+E.+Glassick"},{"text":"The point of Christian scholarship is not recognition by standards established in the wider culture. The point is to praise God with the mind. Such efforts will lead to the kind of intellectual integrity that sometimes receives recognition. But for the Christian that recognition is only a fairly inconsequential by-product. The real point is valuing what God has made, believing that the creation is as 'good' as he said it was, and exploring the fullest dimensions of what it meant for the Son of God to 'become flesh and dwell among us.' Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One whose recognition is important, the One before whom all hearts are open.","author":"Mark A. Noll","tags":["christianity","intellect","scholarship"],"id":22920,"author_id":"Mark+A.+Noll"},{"text":"Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.","author":"Richard Armour","tags":["biography","homer","illiad","scholarship"],"id":28014,"author_id":"Richard+Armour"},{"text":"For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.","author":"John Charles Polanyi","tags":["liberty","scholarship "],"id":28136,"author_id":"John+Charles+Polanyi"},{"text":"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.","author":"Slavoj Žižek","tags":["art","cinema","education","film","life","philosophy","scholarship"],"id":28798,"author_id":"Slavoj+%C5%BDi%C5%BEek"},{"text":"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use  and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library  where he can get it if he wants it.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["scholars","scholarship"],"id":42595,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.","author":"Josiah Gilbert Holland","tags":["measure","scholarship","person "],"id":53878,"author_id":"Josiah+Gilbert+Holland"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":54,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}