The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian ChurchesJames Tunstead Burtchaell, who has extensive experience in American higher education as both a teacher and an administrator, provides case studies of seventeen prominent colleges and universities with diverse ecclesial origins - Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, and Evangelical. Using published and archival sources as well as firsthand interaction with each institution he covers, Burtchaell narrates how each school's religious identity eventually became first uncomfortable and then expendable, and he analyzes the processes that eroded the bonds between school and church. |
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... Lafayette to the fast - moving social agenda of the sixties . The memoran- dum was written near the end of his tumultuous tenure . It displays a remarkable perspective : The Relationship of Lafayette College to the United Presbyterian ...
... Lafayette to the fast - moving social agenda of the sixties . The memoran- dum was written near the end of his tumultuous tenure . It displays a remarkable perspective : The Relationship of Lafayette College to the United Presbyterian ...
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... Colleges and Universities ... Lafayette a double fortune within the synod : respectability , and the assurance that it could delve for further funds without help . At the same time in Easton itself , some of the old strains between the ...
... Colleges and Universities ... Lafayette a double fortune within the synod : respectability , and the assurance that it could delve for further funds without help . At the same time in Easton itself , some of the old strains between the ...
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The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches ... College , " 16 March 1968 , LCSCA . 84. Recommendations of 1968 in respect ... Lafayette faculty voted their acceptance of the statement , and the board ...
The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches ... College , " 16 March 1968 , LCSCA . 84. Recommendations of 1968 in respect ... Lafayette faculty voted their acceptance of the statement , and the board ...
Contents
The Presbyterians | 123 |
The Methodists | 257 |
The Baptists | 357 |
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