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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... brothers and found that about eight hundred out of one thousand wanted the classics taught in their academies and colleges . This finding provoked , rather than persuaded , the ( mostly ) French authorities . To them it appeared that ...
... brothers and found that about eight hundred out of one thousand wanted the classics taught in their academies and colleges . This finding provoked , rather than persuaded , the ( mostly ) French authorities . To them it appeared that ...
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... brother per year was freed of his duties and sent off for graduate study , to the Catholic University of America , Columbia , Notre Dame , or Berkeley . By 1926 the district was able for the first time to send off two younger student ...
... brother per year was freed of his duties and sent off for graduate study , to the Catholic University of America , Columbia , Notre Dame , or Berkeley . By 1926 the district was able for the first time to send off two younger student ...
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... Brothers of the Christian Schools ( Winona , Minn .: Saint Mary's College Press , 1968 ) , 111 . 311. Brother John Johnston , F.S.C. , " Lasallian Educational Ministry , " paper prepared for delivery at the United States / Toronto ...
... Brothers of the Christian Schools ( Winona , Minn .: Saint Mary's College Press , 1968 ) , 111 . 311. Brother John Johnston , F.S.C. , " Lasallian Educational Ministry , " paper prepared for delivery at the United States / Toronto ...
Contents
The Presbyterians | 123 |
The Methodists | 257 |
The Baptists | 357 |
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