The Cruciform Faculty

How do Christian higher education institutions orient new faculty members

to their role on a Christian campus? How do they lead faculty members

toward a deeper understanding of the Christian dimension of their place in higher education? Bible

Colleges, Christian Universities, and Seminaries need a resource that can be provided to faculty

members or be used in faculty development discussions.

This book is designed to serve as just such a resource. It provides a clear and concise portrait of the

general role of faculty from a distinctively evangelical Christian perspective. We use the

metanarrative of being formed by the cross to describe the “cruciform” role of professors as

teachers in the classroom, mentors to the students, scholars within the academy, and servants of

the church and community. Each chapter will have personal and

group reflection questions and exercises to aid in application.