Academic Mentoring

Detailed information about the 2012 Forum Mentoring is not yet available but will be posted in the future. Please review the information from the 2011 Forum Mentoring below for a look at the quality of mentoring that will be available at the 2012 Forum.

ACADEMIC MENTORING DESCRIPTION

One of the most significant needs of the evangelical church is developing its next generation of intellectual leaders.  Currently when evangelicals are sent off for PhD studies they are given the proverbial fatherly push into deep water "to sink or to swim."  Sadly, many struggle to stay afloat and some “spiritually sink.”  Most all experience an intense sociological pressure to give up or compromise their basic Christian convictions.

How can we help these key academic leaders?

Forum Academic Mentoring is designed to help young academics take a practical step toward academic excellence and biblical faithfulness.  All Academic Mentoring participants are required to submit a portion of their work (perhaps a chapter of a thesis/dissertation or a scholarly article), which will be read and evaluated by a more senior academic.  During the Academic Mentoring meeting, the participant will have the opportunity to discuss this piece with a Forum Academic Mentor, who will carefully assess the argumentation, presentation and evidence of critical thinking in the paper.

Darrell L. Bock is Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas. He also serves as Professor for Spiritual Development and Culture for the Seminary’s Center for Christian Leadership. His special fields of study involve hermeneutics, the use of the Old Testament in the New, Luke-Acts, the historical Jesus, gospel studies and the integration of theology and culture. He has served on the board of Chosen People Ministries for almost a decade and was just appointed to the board at Wheaton College. He is a graduate of the University of Texas (B.A.), Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.), and the University of Aberdeen (Ph.D.). He has had four annual stints of post‑doctoral study at the University of Tübingen, the second through fourth as an Alexander von Humboldt scholar (1989-90, 1995-96, 2004-05, 2010-2011).

Dirk Jongkind is a Dutch biblical scholar who finished his PhD at Cambridge University. His main scholarly interest is in the Greek text of the Bible and the Graeco-Roman backdrop of Acts and the letters. Currently, he is the Research Fellow in New Testament at Tyndale House and the John W. Laing Fellow at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He is working on legal language in and outside the New Testament. The focus of his work includes textual criticism of the Greek Bible, with emphases on grammar and lexicography, epigraphy, papyrology, and archaeology of the Graeco-Roman world and the relation of New Testament background and exegesis.

Chris Watkin is a lecturer in the department of French at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Murray Edwards College. His publications include Phenomenology or Deconstruction? (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Difficult Atheism (Edinburgh University Press, 2011) and From Plato to Postmodernism (Bristol Classical Press, 2011). Difficult Atheism argues that ‘atheism’ as traditionally conceived is increasingly inadequate to describe the positions taken by French philosophers today, and that philosophical atheism is, as yet at least, non-existent. From Plato to Postmodernism takes the reader on a cultural journey through 3000 years of Western history, telling the story of the philosophy, literature, music and art that has shaped Western civilization. He is currently working on the notion of equality in contemporary thought and society. Chris completed his doctoral thesis in philosophy (on the relation of deconstruction and phenomenology) at Cambridge University in 2006, looking particularly at the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricœur, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Derrida.

Rolf Hille is the former Principal of Albrecht-Bengel-House of the Tübingen theological seminary. Since 2009, he has held a lecturer position in systematic theology and has helped develop and lead a doctoral supervisory program for Albrecht-Bengel Haus.  He is the director for ecumenical affairs of the World Evangelical Alliance (formerly the World Evangelical Fellowship) and was formerly the executive chairman of the WEF Theological Commission.Doctorate in Protestant Theology at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, with a dissertation on Karl Heim.Heis married and has two children.

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