{"id":1143,"date":"2015-03-31T15:05:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T19:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2023-07-18T21:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T01:10:22","slug":"how-a-professor-changes-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/2015\/how-a-professor-changes-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Professor Changes the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1143\" class=\"elementor elementor-1143\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fc3cf19 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fc3cf19\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-32322fd\" data-id=\"32322fd\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a1b0199 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a1b0199\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Isaac Milner (11 January 1750 \u2013 1 April 1820) was a mathematician, an inventor, the President of Queens&#8217; College, Cambridge and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.&nbsp; The Lucasian Professor was one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world. Its holders include not only Isaac Milner but also Isaac Newton, Joseph Larmor, Charles Babbage, George Stokes, Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5861892 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5861892\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b95d31a\" data-id=\"b95d31a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a2efde7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a2efde7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>When one of Milner&#8217;s former students William Wilberforce asked him to be his conversation partner during summer travels around Europe, Milner agreed.&nbsp; Wilberforce regarded Milner as \u201cvery much a man of the world in his manners,\u201d one who would help advance his political career\u2014not knowing that Milner had a gift for winsomely articulating \u201cthe intellectual heart of Christianity.\u201d<\/p><p>At the time, Wilberforce was a 21-year-old MP (Member of Parliament), a friend of Prime Minister William Pitt, and was given to spending his time in \u201cshapeless idleness.\u201d But that was about to change\u2014because of Milner\u2019s influence.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b80532b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b80532b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5dfe18b\" data-id=\"5dfe18b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b3df2da elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b3df2da\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Casual Conversation and Good Books<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4ad283a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4ad283a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2626621\" data-id=\"2626621\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad626f8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ad626f8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>As they traveled together across France, Milner\u2019s views on religion emerged. Milner had been influenced by the preaching of John Wesley and had, as the historians described it, \u201ccertain evangelical leanings.\u201d\u00a0 Teacher and student grew to be friends as they engaged in many discussions about faith and the truth of Scripture.\u00a0 They studied together a popular evangelical book The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul by Philip Doddridge. They also took turns reading from the Greek New Testament.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>As C.S. Lewis had commented regarding himself, \u201cA young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading . . . All the books were beginning to turn against me.\u201d<\/p><p>When Wilberforce returned to London in the fall of 1785, he was in the midst of what he would later describe as his \u201cGreat Change,\u201d or his embrace of evangelical Christianity.\u00a0 His friend and mentor had \u201cwrecked\u201d his life. Caught in a dilemma, Wilberforce couldn\u2019t decide whether he could or should serve God in politics. Fortunately, Milner, John Newton and others suggested he could do both&#8211;serve God and be an MP.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fb6c12e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fb6c12e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-762faf6\" data-id=\"762faf6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42d7e59 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"42d7e59\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Captivating Visions<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8c955e6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8c955e6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5c8d1f8\" data-id=\"5c8d1f8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a67c94e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a67c94e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Arising out of the Great Change in his new life in Christ, Wilberforce became captive to a compelling vision for his life.\u00a0 Two years after his conversion, Wilberforce wrote in his journal,<\/p><p><b><i>&#8220;God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p><p>When Wilberforce began to work for the abolition of the slave trade, his teacher, mentor and friend, Isaac Milner steeled him for the 20 year political battle ahead:\u00a0 If you carry this point in your life, that life will be better spent than in being prime minister of many years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>In the last letter he ever wrote, the evangelist John Wesley encouraged Wilberforce with these words.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><i>Balam, February 24, 1791<\/i><\/p><p><i>Dear Sir:<\/i><\/p><p><i>Unless the divine power has raised you up to be as Athanasius contra mundum, I see not how you can go through your glorious enterprise in opposing that execrable villainy which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature. Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God before you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing! Go on, in the name of God and in the power of his might, till even American slavery (the vilest that ever saw the sun) shall vanish away before it. . . .<\/i><\/p><p><i>That he who has guided you from youth up may continue to strengthen you in this and all things, is the prayer of, dear sir,<\/i><\/p><p><i>Your affectionate servant,<\/i><\/p><p><i>John Wesley<\/i><\/p><p>As Abraham Lincoln was a young man in the 1830s, he wrote that the name of Wilberforce was on everybody&#8217;s lips.\u00a0<\/p><p>And the rest is history.<\/p><p>Eric Metaxas&#8217; award winning biography of Wilberforce, Amazing Grace, is not to be missed.\u00a0 Milner&#8217;s influence comes out so clearly in the chapter on Wilberforce&#8217;s Great Change.\u00a0 As I read it, I couldn&#8217;t help but think of the influence we have as faculty.\u00a0 We too can help change the world.<\/p><p>Wilberforce proposed two questions that we as Christ-followers should hear:<\/p><p>First, am I using my time, money, body, and mental powers so I can give a joyful account of my life to God?<\/p><p>Second, am I putting into practice my beliefs about God in all things and proving, as a servant of Christ, that I am moved to serve others by the principle of love that grants freedom from the obsession with fame, ambition, and greediness?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-57029e7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"57029e7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-40b507b\" data-id=\"40b507b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-411218a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"411218a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Jay Lorenzen<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Milner (11 January 1750 \u2013 1 April 1820) was a mathematician, an inventor, the President of Queens&#8217; College, Cambridge and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.\u00a0 The Lucasian Professor was one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world. 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