Life Questions Every Student Asks: Faithful Responses to Common Issues

by Gary M. Burge; David Lauber

Publisher:

IVP Academic

, 2020

Overview

Every student asks questions about life beyond the classroom:

• What does it mean to be in community?
• How can I discern my vocation?
• How should I understand marriage and sex?
• How should I relate to money and power?
• What happens if I doubt my faith?
• How should I approach interfaith dialogue?

To help students navigate these questions about some of life's most pressing and difficult issues, Gary M. Burge and David Lauber, coeditors of Theology Questions Everyone Asks, have gathered insights from Christian faculty who draw on their own experiences in conversation with students during office hours and over coffee. Sometimes, the deepest learning takes place outside the classroom.

Key Features

• Explores common situations students experience outside the classroom
• Collects insights from experienced Christian educators
• Covers topics including vocation, suffering, money, and counseling

Contents

• Community and Friendship – Gary M. Burge
• Vocation – Ben Norquist
• Gender Roles – Emily Hunter McGowin
• Sex – Beth Felker Jones
• Marriage – Margaret Kim Peterson
• Church – Amy Peeler
• Wealth and Power – James G. Huff Jr.
• Suffering – David Lauber
• Doubt – Keith L. Johnson
• Counseling – Elisha Eveleigh
• Religious Pluralism – David Capes
• Activism – Matt Vega

Praise for the Print Edition

Every conversation in this book I had as a student at Columbia University, except I didn’t have this book to ground and launch those discussions. If you are a college student or work with them, then this is the book to get together to discuss and wrestle with what it looks like to follow Jesus in the face of a dominant culture that calls you to look elsewhere for identity, significance, and satisfaction.

—Jonathan Walton is an area director with InterVarsity/USA and author of Twelve Lies That Hold America Captive: And the Truth That Sets Us Free

Product Details

• Title: Life Questions Every Student Asks: Faithful Responses to Common Issues
• Authors: Gary M. Burge, David Lauber
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 194
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christian life; College students › Religious life
• ISBNs: 9780830853335, 9780830853328, 0830853332, 0830853324
• Resource ID: LLS:LFQSTNSSTDNTSKS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:13:29Z

About the Authors

Gary M. Burge (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is dean of the faculty and professor of New Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary. He previously taught for twenty-five years at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. Among his many published books are The New Testament in Seven Sentences, Theology Questions Everyone Asks (with coeditor David Lauber), A Week in the Life of a Roman Centurion, Mapping Your Academic Career, The New Testament in Antiquity (coauthored with Gene Green), and the award-winning Whose Land? Whose Promise? What Christians Are Not Being Told About Israel and the Palestinians.

David Lauber (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is dean of the School of Biblical and Theological Studies and associate professor of theology at Wheaton College. He is the author of Barth on the Descent into Hell and the coeditor of several volumes, including Theology Questions Everyone Asks (with coeditor Gary Burge), Trinitarian Theology for the Church, The People’s Book, and The Bloomsbury Companion to the Doctrine of Sin.

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