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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... academic one . Likewise its result . When Catholics and Jews flooded onto the campus and domi- nated the student population , only an inclination to fantasy could allow anyone to imagine ( though for a long while many did imagine ) that ...
... academic one . Likewise its result . When Catholics and Jews flooded onto the campus and domi- nated the student population , only an inclination to fantasy could allow anyone to imagine ( though for a long while many did imagine ) that ...
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... academic units like Fine and Performing Arts , and Economics and Business Administration , and Health Care Management of courses to appraise historic Catholic contributions to their disciplines.342 Here , after years of diffidence and ...
... academic units like Fine and Performing Arts , and Economics and Business Administration , and Health Care Management of courses to appraise historic Catholic contributions to their disciplines.342 Here , after years of diffidence and ...
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... academic recognition it will be all too easy to succumb as so many have to a mere academic program . . . . We have an added plus of spiritual contribution . In order to make this spiritual contribution every member of the faculty and ...
... academic recognition it will be all too easy to succumb as so many have to a mere academic program . . . . We have an added plus of spiritual contribution . In order to make this spiritual contribution every member of the faculty and ...
Contents
The Presbyterians | 123 |
The Methodists | 257 |
The Baptists | 357 |
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