Browsing Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies Volume 05 (1987) by Issue Date
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An Introductory Comment: Integration, Cultural and Academic
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Controversy and Canon in the Undergraduate Humanities Curriculum: The Example of Biblical Studies
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1987)The question of canon, of whether undergraduates should read an authoritative list of books, raises substantial epistemological and pedagogical issues which may be obscured if the question is framed merely as a ... -
Origen: Reading as Discipline and as Sacrament
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1987)The work of Origen, an Alexandrian Father of the Church, falls in the first half of the third century A.D., before the Council of Nicaea established a firm rule of faith. Origen's work at Alexandria and Caesarea helped ... -
Postmodernism and the Present State of Integrative Studies: A Reply to Benson and His Critics
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1987)Benson and his critics seem to make three troubling assumptions: 1) There is only one valid theoretical approach to interdisciplinary studies. 2) Unanimous agreement is a possible and desirable goal. 3) When a consensus ... -
Reading the Bible, Writing the Self: George Herbert's The Temple
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1987)George Herbert's unified poetic text, The Temple, may be read as Herbert's attempt to gain wholeness through reading the Bible and the signs of God in the natural universe. For Herbert, holy insight is based on comparing ... -
Response to Nicholson: The Case for Agreement about Interdisciplinarity
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Criminology: Discipline or Interdiscipline
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1987)In its modern form Criminology has had over one hundred years to assume a truly interdisciplinary nature, yet the dominant approach remains discipline-based. However, as the field of Criminology has evolved, the dominant ... -
Intellectual Integration
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1987)Poetry serves as the prototype for integrating our culture and our minds. We need to put together things by retaining the identity of the parts yet creating new wholes. Poetry has a desirable tension between order ...