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Re-imagining the Kingdom: Cultivating Faithful Habits and Practices for Christian Scholars and Educators

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 Division: Academe  Author(s): Donna Elkins, Jonathan Pettigrew, and Mark Allan Steiner  Category: Coming Soon, Critiques of Media, Culture, Ethics, Historical Studies, Intercultural Communication, Narrative, Religious Language, Theology and Communication, Theory  ISBN: 978-1-959685-51-7  Dimension: 6 x 9  Share: More Details
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For decades, Christian scholarship has been shaped by worldview approaches that frame faith primarily as an intellectual system. Re-imagining the Kingdom invites a starting point rooted in desire, formation, and the embodied practices that shape the Christian imagination. Chapters explore how Christian scholarship might move beyond worldview approaches to embrace practices that cultivate trust, credibility, relational presence, and spiritual depth. Emerging from a dialogic unconference hosted by the Christianity and Communication Studies Network by the same name, and drawing on the insights of James K. A. Smith, this volume gathers scholars and educators who are rethinking academic life through the lens of liturgical anthropology and the formative power of habit. It invites readers to re-imagine scholarship as a slow, faithful, and deeply human work—one formed not merely by ideas but by the practices that orient the heart toward God.

About the author(s)

Donna Elkins

Donna Elkins

Donna Elkins (PhD, University of Kentucky) serves as Associate Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness and Professor of Communication at Campbellsville University. Prior to joining Campbellsville University, she was Dean of Online Education, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, and a Professor of Communication at Spalding University. Donna also served as Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Communication at Jefferson Community and Technical College.

Jonathan Pettigrew

Jonathan Pettigrew

Jonathan Pettigrew (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) is a Professor at Arizona State University who is devoted to seeing families and relationships thrive. He is co-editor of the book Professing Christ: Christian Tradition and Faith-learning Integration in Public Universities (Integratio Press, 2022) and has published in academic journals including Journal of Adolescent Research, Journal of Family Communication, Marriage & Family Review, and Journal of Divorce and Remarriage.

Mark Allan Steiner

Mark Allan Steiner

Mark Allan Steiner (PhD, Indiana University) is Associate Professor of Communication at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, and is a past president of the Religious Communication Association. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Operation Rescue: Projecting the Christian Pro-Life Message (2006) and “Reconceptualizing Christian Public Engagement: ‘Faithful Witness’ and the American Evangelical Tradition” (2009) and has published a range of articles and book chapters on evangelical Christian rhetoric, media and religion, undergraduate communication pedagogy, and rhetoric education at the primary and secondary school levels.

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