This is a letter from Managing Editor Joshua C. Stone

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EleutheriaEleutheria: A Graduate Student JournalVolume 1Issue 1 The Inaugural Issue Article 210-1-2010Letter from the Managing EditorEleutheriaFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/eleuPart of the Biblical Studies Commons, Philosophy Commons, and the Religious Thought,Theology and Philosophy of Religion CommonsThis Letter from the Editor is brought to you for free and open access by the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary and Graduate School atDigitalCommons@Liberty University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Eleutheria by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@LibertyUniversity. For more information, please contact scholarlycommunication@liberty.edu.Recommended CitationEleutheria (2010) "Letter from the Managing Editor," Eleutheria: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 2.Available at: http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/eleu/vol1/iss1/2Letter from the Managing EditorAbstractThis is a letter from Managing Editor Joshua C. Stone.Cover Page FootnoteLetter from the Managing EditorThis letter from the editor is available in Eleutheria: http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/eleu/vol1/iss1/2Eleutheria 1:1 Fall (2010) 1  LETTER FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR  The mission of Eleutheria is “to glorify God through the publication of excellent graduate student scholarship from an evangelical perspective in the areas of Theology and Philosophy, Scripture and Interpretation, and Church and Mission.”  It is a common joke among graduate students of religion to call seminaries “cemeteries” where one accrues expertise in theological training while the heart and soul languish and ministry skills atrophy.  The Editorial Board believes that academic training and ardent faith are not at loggerheads, for deep, robust, and excellent scholarship glorifies God and is an act of worship in itself.  God is honored by sincere thinking about Him.  Eleutheria was created to provide graduate students of Theology and Philosophy, Scripture and Interpretation, and Church and Mission with an avenue to express and share their worship of God through excellent scholarship.  This is a unique project in that it is led, refereed, and written by men and women still in the process of seminary and graduate school education. There is no other publication with such a unique place in the landscape of evangelicalism.  The hope of the Editorial Board is for papers that are published in Eleutheria to be the first-fruits of students who will contribute great work to evangelical Christianity, and that scholars will one day see that Eleutheria was the place where many inportant intellectual concepts were first introduced.   1 Timothy 4:8 says “For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.”  Each contributor to Eleutheria is uniquely gifted with significant cognitive ability and has a distinct role to play in the Body of Christ.  Though publishing deep, robust, and excellent scholarship is an intrinsic good and glorifies God, the ultimate desire of the Editorial Board is that the work within the journal, those that read the journal, and the greater impact that Eleutheria makes will contribute to the task of drawing all men unto God by the power of the Holy Spirit through the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  I would like to thank Drs. Leo Percer, Edward Smither, Daniel Mitchell, Thom Provenzola, Gary Yates, and Tyler Veak for their service on the Faculty Advisory Board, especially the Faculty Advisory Board chair Dr. Percer.  His work at the beginning stages of the project was invaluable.  I would also like to thank Associate Editors Chad Thornhill, Ronnie Campbell, and Lee Webb for their hard work in editing, re-editing, and again editing the submissions.  Theologians prefer not to deal with the details of formatting and grammar, so we are indebted to our Copy Editor Andrew Walker for his great work with the details of each article.   Joshua C. Stone Managing Editor, Eleutheria 

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