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The
Christian Academic
This volume
contains the academic writings of Thomas Langford during his career as
a professor and dean at Texas Tech University.
$16.95
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Thomas A. Langford
Quaker Avenue
Church of Christ
Lubbock, Texas
Thomas earned the doctorate in English literature at
Texas Christian University and taught at Texas Tech University. He had
a thirty-year career with Texas Tech, as Professor of English and
eventually Dean of the Graduate School. He also served thirty years as
an elder in the Quaker Avenue Church of Christ. Thomas has been
happily married for fifty-one years to the former Nellie Jo Cunningham
of Dexter, New Mexico.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1.
Christians in Higher Education
2.
Some Thoughts on Teaching
3.
Art and Faith
4.
Literacy and Belief
5.
Science and Faith: A Growing Convergence
6.
The Bible, Literature and Popular Prejudice
7.
The Moral Impact of Literature
8.
N. L. Clark and Early Christian Colleges
9.
John Ruskin and the Doctrine of Imperfection
10.
Johnson’s Rasselas, “Vanity of Human Wishes”
and “Ecclesiastes”
11.
Milton on Ministry
12.
John Milton, Alexander Campbell and the
American Restoration Movement
13.
Milton’s Early Poetry:
The Confirmation of a Teacher
14.
“That one talent which is death to hide”:
The Poet as Teacher
15. The Temptations
in Paradise
Regained
16. The Nature of
the Christ in
Paradise Regained
17.
Prophetic Imagination and the Unity of Jane Eyre
18.
Cordelia and the Rhetoric of Righteousness in King Lear
19.
Tennyson’s “‘The Hesperides’ and Milton”
20.
“Throw off the mask”:
Browning’s Religious Poems
21.
The Problems of Comedy
Illustrated by a “Problem Comedy”
22.
Rhythmic Patterns in the King James Version
of the Bible
23.
The Secunda Pastorum:
Episodic Digression or Unified
Drama?
24.
Conscience of a Quaker: A Study of John Woolman
25.
Culture and Curriculum:
What Really Happened at Stanford?
Afterword
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