Institute Initiatives
Human Flourishing Project
- An ongoing project exploring the theme of human flourishing as a touchstone between Christian belief and broader human striving. Our aim is to show how Christianity continues to offer essential resources for living well, enabling and empowering the work of the university and all areas of human life. The fellows are currently working on a book length project to introduce our concern in this matter—other projects will follow.
The Integration Project
The call to integrate the Christian faith with contemporary scholarship has become a topic of lively discussion. We take this task to involve exploring how the contours of a Christian vision of reality illuminate the rich diversity of research projects within the academy. Our expectation is that work in this area will contribute fruitful questions and methodologies to the current discourse.
The research projects of individual Rivendell Fellows represent their commitment to integrate within their own disciplines. In addition, the institute’s Integration Project seeks to identify and articulate a Biblical, Theological and Practical model to help others pursue their integration task faithfully.
Individual Initiatives-
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Gregory Ganssle, Senior Fellow
Research interests: Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics, History of Philosophy, Christianity and the University
Dave Mahan, Senior Fellow
Research interests: Religion and Literature, Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Theology of the Imagination
C. Donald Smedley, Senior Fellow
Research interests: Natural Law Theory, Human Rights, Pluralism and Religious Diversity, especially between Islam and Christianity, Religion in the Public Sphere; Politics and Religion, Privileged Status of Scientific Knowledge; Religion and Science
Jon Hinkson, Senior Fellow
Research interests: Yale Spiritual History, The Aims and Means of Christian Historiography, The Aims and Means of Christian Spiritual Formation, Theology of Life and Witness
Rick Schneider, Senior Fellow
Research interests: Russian Social History, Political Theory
Junius Johnson, Research Fellow
Research interests: Philosophical Theology, Systematic Theology, Medieval Theology
James Ehrman, Fellow
Research interests: World Christianity, Ecumenicism, Christian Mission, Inter-faith dialogue, and Christian theories of other religions
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