Intellectual Humility and the Difficult Knowledge of Theology
Publication Date
4-13-2018
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Title
American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2018 Annual Meeting
Conference Location
New York, NY
Abstract
We seek, in this analytical essay, to propose “intellectual humility” as a mode for moving toward new avenues of knowledge production in the academy, particularly as an epistemic stance against the kinds of “intellectual arrogance” that have made certain avenues of knowledge, especially in the social sciences, mostly verboten in the last half century. Drawing on the conceptual frames of difficult knowledge and weak theology, we turn to our own stories of faith and inquiry as ways in to thinking humility, and through which we draw broader conclusions about what humility may offer that’s especially useful in this particular moment in the academy and beyond.
Department
English and Comparative Literature
Recommended Citation
Scott Jarvie and Kevin J. Burke. "Intellectual Humility and the Difficult Knowledge of Theology" American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2018 Annual Meeting (2018).
