A Christian Approach to Interdisciplinary Studies: In Search of a Method and Starting Point

by William D. Dennison

In an academic world that has rejected a Christian ontology, metaphysic, and epistemology, as well as the secular foundationalism of modernity, one is hard-pressed to find any secular academician in the field of interdisciplinary studies (IDS) advocating a definitive starting point and methodology for IDS. In A Christian Approach to Interdisciplinary Studies, William D. Dennison asks, is such a study truly integrative that does not have an ontological, integrative starting point and the constitutive component of method? To put the question another way, without the God of the Bible as the author of integration within creation, can there truly be IDS? Indeed, Dennison calls for the integration of approach and method, integration provided and modeled by the triune God of Scripture. Adapted from the Preface

134 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2007

Reviews

[Mindy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dennison's was an ok book, but even ChatGPT said he used too many words to say what he meant. In the end, because of time pressures, I had to ask the AI to summarize the book for me. We used this book in conjunction with Repko and Szostak's Interdisciplinary Research Process and Theory and to be honest, it didn't add much. It basically says that for the believer, all of everything is grounded in Scripture, so the basis of our interdisciplinary research should be Scripture. I agree with his argument, but I also agree with ChatGPT that he used too many words to say it.