Publications
Books
Biblical Evidence: Logical Approaches to Objectivity
The general public is constantly bombarded with claims about “the historical Jesus” or an alternate Moses or Old Testament narrative. While the author places much more confident in the Biblical narrative, he challenges readers to process information themselves, and hold scholars to their own basic rules of objectivity. Using both ancient and current case studies, this book shows the overlapping evidence on key points, and more importantly, the process of looking for the highest probability. Readers will find various levels of sources utilized, and the simple steps for processing them. This book is adapted from the earlier book, A Brief Guide to Objective Inquiry.
Beyond Integration? Inter/Disciplinary Possibilities for the Future of Christian Higher Education
Over the last generation the phrase "integration of faith and learning" has come to describe how many Christian colleges and universities understand how all forms of learning fall under the lordship of Jesus Christ. With its origins in the philosophical and theological insights of the Reformed tradition, this phrase has expanded its influence to institutions nurtured by numerous Christian traditions.
This volume draws together prominent voices who are beginning to reflect upon Christian higher education as it may exist beyond the influence of the integration model. If the original integration model is now beginning to demonstrate its limits, what is emerging in its place? The book is organized by areas historically considered to make up the core of an undergraduate general education curriculum—the natural sciences, the social sciences, the behavioral sciences, and the liberal arts. Contributors include scholars who have emerged as seminal voices in their fields and have wrestled with some of the larger questions facing the Christian academy.
Taking Every Thought Captive: Forty Years of Christian Scholar's Review (Abilene Christian University Press)
Taking Every Thought Captive celebrates forty years of the Christian Scholar’s Review by collecting a representation of the best scholarship to appear in its pages from inception in 1970 through 2010. Over its forty years of publication, CSR has had two main objectives: “the integration of Christian faith and learning on both the intra- and inter-disciplinary levels” and “to provide a forum for the discussion of the theoretical issues of Christian higher education.” The twenty-four articles gathered in this anniversary collection reflect both of these objectives. As a whole, this collection witnesses to the rigors of the intellectual enterprise found within the pages of CSR and affirms an ongoing commitment to support, enhance, and promote Christian scholarship. Contributors include: Carl F. H. Henry, Arthur F. Holmes, George Marsden, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, Stanley Hauerwas, Richard J. Mouw, Mark A. Noll, Dallas Willard, Elizabeth Newman, Roger Lundin, Nancy Ammerman, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and fifteen others.
Jerry is a co-editor for this volume, along with the other senior editors for The Christian Scholars Review: Don W. King (editor); Perry L. Glanzer (co-book review editor); David A. Hoekema (publisher); Jerry A. Pattengale (associate publisher), Todd C. Ream (co-book review editor); and Todd P. Steen (managing editor). Release date, June, 2011, Abilene Christian University Press.
The Purpose Guided Student (McGraw-Hill)
Jerry Pattengale’s The Purpose-Guided Student: Dream to Succeed helps students to find their way, and to be excited about doing so! Through connecting class work to life passions, Pattengale helps students to persist to graduation and beyond. The Purpose-Guided Student has a practical and engaging “big picture approach” that helps students “to create dreams stronger than their struggles,” and to develop intrinsic motivation. Engaging students in discussions about important questions relative to their future and capitalizing on the many classes and campus experiences students face, The Purpose-Guided Student motivates students find their passion and succeed in college and beyond.
Helping Sophomores Succeed (Jossey-Bass)
Helping Sophomores Succeed offers an in-depth, comprehensive understanding of the common challenges that arise in a student's second year of college. Sponsored by the University of South Carolina's National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience® and Students in Transition, this groundbreaking book offers an examination of second-year student success and satisfaction using both quantitative and qualitative measures from national research findings. Helping Sophomores Succeed serves as a foundation for designing programs and services for the second-year student population that will help to promote retention, academic and career development, and personal transition and growth.
Why I Teach (McGraw-Hill)
Striking a cord for campus' entire faculty and future teachers. Contributions from Parker Palmer, Laurie Schreiner, Bill Placher, Edwin Yamauchi, Joseph Bentz, Jerry Forbes and others. The author's Life Wedge concept, Crossroads Principle, and Vertigo discussion have professional currency.
Str8T@lk: Clear Answers About Today's Christianity (Triangle, second edition)
People today are barraged with contradictory messages about Christianity. Who has the right message? In Straight Talk: Clear Answers about Today's Christianity, historian and professor Jerry Pattengale explains how to reach an informed opinion about these mixed signals by consulting Christianity’s primary source--the Bible. Dr. Pattengale’s premise is to understand Christ based on His central teaching and to measure all discussions of Christianity against a scriptural barometer. In a writing style that is lively and anecdotal, Dr. Pattengale carefully structures his analysis around such topics as salvation, discipleship, morality, sanctification, and doctrinal positions.
Visible Solutions for Invisible Students: Helping Sophomores Succeed (USC-National Resource Center)
Years of experience and direct observation on campuses across the nation have led educators to conclude that sophomores receive the least attention of any class. While a growing number of institutions are experiencing some success in reducing first-year attrition, the question remains has this successful programming merely postponed the inevitable attrition to the sophomore year? By pulling together a variety of views on sophomores and examining sophomores' unique needs and issues, we hope to provide institutions with a blueprint not only for addressing sophomore attrition, but also for energizing sophomores so they may benefit more from their educations.
Leading Business by the Book (Triangle)
Choices come in different forms. Whether you own your own business or run another’s company, or whether you manage a small operation, a division, or a large corporation, the principles of management are the same. Some decisions are routine in nature. We know exactly what to do and when to act. Some decisions are unprecedented. We have no past experience or case studies to consult. Other decisions allow considerable deliberation and a thorough response. And then there are the spontaneous decisions. No teammates to consult. No board members around. Nothing to go by but sensible principles from tested turf and, if you’re wise, principles that are grounded in biblical truths. One of the keys you’ll find in my business approach is that if you manage by the Book, your best resource never changes and is always at your fingertips.
A Brief Guide to Objective Inquiry (Triangle)
The Christian college seeks to educate, both for making a living and for living a full life. This book focuses upon the latter goal. It seeks to assist students who are seeking truth and acquiring the perceptual skills for increasingly growing in understanding. Few things are as important as this!
Heads Up Choices (Online)
Too many parents have fought over the interpretation of a rule while the spirit of the law and various character issues have been ignored. It's time to rise up and to grasp securely the seeds of greed and manufactured glory and toss them from our infields. It's time to discard coaches with double standards and special rulings. It's time to march in full uniform from smoke-filled rooms of slander and cursing -- dens where we seem to have lost sight of why we "draft" players in the first place. It's a season to sit with struggling parents in the bleachers and to be sensitive to their sagas without compromising our principles. Each player on the field is a special story. It's time for the kids to kick up the dust and to laugh and play and learn. This is also the time to help parents in decent programs to protect all that is good in their local organizations and to provide them with Biblical guidelines to do so.
Other Publications
Dr. Jerry Pattengale's other publications include a variety of newspaper and periodical articles, including the Buck Creek Chronicles, some of which are available online on the Selected Writings page of this site.
