The Mind in Another Place: My Life as a Scholar

by Luke Timothy Johnson

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2022

Overview

A witness to the peculiar way of being that is the scholar’s 

Luke Timothy Johnson is one of the best-known and most influential New Testament scholars of recent decades. In this memoir, he draws on his rich experience to invite readers into the scholar’s life—its aims, commitments, and habits. 

In addition to sharing his own story, from childhood to retirement, Johnson reflects on the nature of scholarship more generally, showing how this vocation has changed over the past half-century and where it might be going in the future. He is as candid and unsparing about negative trends in academia as he is hopeful about the possibilities of steadfast, disciplined scholarship. In two closing chapters, he discusses the essential intellectual and moral virtues of scholarly excellence, including curiosity, imagination, courage, discipline, persistence, detachment, and contentment. 

Johnson’s robust defense of the scholarly life—portrayed throughout this book as a generative process of discovery and disclosure—will inspire both new and seasoned scholars, as well as anyone who reads and values good scholarship. But The Mind in Another Place ultimately resonates beyond the walls of the academy and speaks to matters more universally human: the love of knowledge and the lifelong pursuit of truth.

Key Features

• Draws on rich experience to invite readers into the scholar’s life
• Examines how scholarship has changed over the past half-century and where it might be going in the future
• Explores the love of knowledge and the lifelong pursuit of truth

Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part One: Becoming a Scholar
          1. Childhood
          2. Adolescence
          3. Monastic Life
          4. Doctoral Studies
Part Two: Being a Scholar
          5. Yale Divinity School
          6. Indiana University
          7. Emory University (1992–2001)
          8. Emory University (2001–2016)
          9. Scholarship in Academic Retirement
Part Three: A Scholar’s Virtues
          10. Intellectual Virtues
          11. Moral Virtues
Epilogue

Product Details

• Title: The Mind in Another Place: My Life as a Scholar
• Author: Luke Timothy Johnson
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 268
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Johnson, Luke Timothy; New Testament scholars › United States--Biography
• ISBNs: 9780802880116, 0802880118
• Resource ID: LLS:MNDNTHRPLSSCHLR
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:33:25Z

About Luke Timothy Johnson

New Testament scholar and early Christianity historian, Luke Timothy Johnson (1943–), is the Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Professor Johnson earned his BA in Philosophy from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, an MDiv in Theology from Saint Meinrad School of Theology, an MA in Religious Studies from Indiana University, and his PhD in New Testament Studies from Yale University. A former Benedictine monk, Johnson has taught at Yale Divinity School and Indiana University. He is the author of more than 20 books, has published a large number of scholarly and popular articles, anthologies, book reviews, and other academic papers, and lectures and received several awards for excellence in teaching. He often lectures at universities and seminaries worldwide, where he is widely perceived as the leading conservative scholar on the debates surrounding the Jesus Seminar, taking stances against its view of Jesus.