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Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs; Professor of Humanities
Valparaiso University
Mark Schwehn
No. 38 · Fall 2013
Schwehn answers Michael Staton’s call to “disaggregate” the components of a college degree by insisting that Lutheran education is integral and whole. Working through Bruce Kimball’s history of liberal education, Cardinal Newman, and Leon Kass on Athens and Jerusalem, he argues that Lutherans should defend liberal learning on instrumental grounds and offers the figure of the “local genius”—exemplified by his Valparaiso colleague John Strietelmeier—as the form of human excellence that Lutheran colleges uniquely cultivate.
No. 1 · Summer 1996
Schwehn’s keynote, framed against Otto Paul Kretzmann’s October 1940 inaugural at Valparaiso, organizes itself around four topics: the idea of a Christian University (Lutheran schools as a tributary of the Christian intellectual tradition, voices in a conversation in the spirit of H. Richard Niebuhr and Alasdair MacIntyre rather than phases of James Burtchaell’s devolutionary scheme); the pursuit of truth (against Foucauldian reduction of truth to power, with Hilary Putnam, toward a cruciform discipleship that discovers truth ambulando); the critique of knowledge (developing Christian theories of knowing in conversation with Benne, Lotz, Wolterstorff, LeClerc, and Augustine); and Christianity and liberal learning (objectivity refurbished as Thomas Haskell’s ascetic self-discipline, and the recovery of texts that have claims upon us).
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