摘要:As a professor in a secular university for forty years, my
teaching responsibility has been to teach students of political science as
well as I could. Mere worldly success depends on doing that, as well as
on being a successful scholar, as the profession and ones colleagues
define successful. As a Christian, one¡¯s salvation depends partly on how
conscientiously one fulfills these worldly responsibilities to others.
¡°Thou shalt not steal¡± and ¡°Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.¡± It
is obviously a challenge to try to sanctify one¡¯s daily professional work
but it is not impossible. The following is a record of how one man has
attempted to do that in the admittedly unpromising environment of a
secular university. Perhaps these experiences and reflections on them
may be useful for others who are considering an academic career.