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Conceiving The Christian College

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004 - 283 pages
This book is designed to help those who are interested in Christian higher education explore anew the unique features, opportunities, and contemporary challenges of one distinct type of educational institution -- the Christian college.

What distinguishes "Conceiving the Christian College from the many other books on this subject is its incisive discussion of a set of crucial ideas widely misunderstood in the world of Christian higher education. Now serving in his eleventh year as president of one of the nation's foremost Christian colleges, Duane Litfin is well placed to ask pressing questions regarding faith-based education. What is unique about Christian colleges? What is required to sustain them? How do they maintain their bearing in the tumultuous intellectual seas of the twenty-first century? Litfin's themes are large, but they are meant to refocus the conceptual challenges to Christian education in ways that will strengthen both the academic environment of today's Christian colleges and their impact on culture at large.

  

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Contents

Introduction
1
Two Academic Models CHALLENGE To Understand More Clearly Our Own Identity
11
The Centerpiece CHALLENGE To See More Fully Whom We Serve
34
A Centered Education CHALLENGE To Keep the Center at the Center
64
Its All Gods Truth CHALLENGE To Strengthen the Foundations of Christian Thought
85
A Balanced Epistemology CHALLENGE To Preserve the Idea of Truth
99
Integrative Thinking Prolegomena CHALLENGE To Understand the Integrative Mandate
127
Doing Integration CHALLENGE To Sustain Our Commitment to the Integrative Task
149
Faith and Learning CHALLENGE To Reinforce Our Commitment to Revealed Truth
181
The Voluntary Principle CHALLENGE To Reconcile Institutional Commitments with Individual Freedoms
214
Institutional Breadth CHALLENGE To Appreciate Our Institutional Uniqueness
237
Our Place in the Academy CHALLENGE To Engender a More Congenial Academic Environment
254
Index
274
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Dr. Duane Litfin, president of Wheaton College and author of 'Conceiving the Christian College,' will speak Wednesday about Christian higher education. ...
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About the author (2004)

Litfin is serving in his eleventh year as president of Wheaton College in Illinois. He holds an undergraduate degree in biblical studies and a master's degree in theology as well as doctorates from Purdue University and Oxford University.

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TitleConceiving The Christian College
AuthorA. Duane Litfin
PublisherWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004
ISBN0802827837, 9780802827838
Length283 pages
  
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