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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... denomination and those whose relation to it is merely a sympathetic one . " He suggested that Dartmouth might want to do something about its " misleading " inclusion in the Congregational Year Book.74 In the case of Dartmouth and ...
... denomination and those whose relation to it is merely a sympathetic one . " He suggested that Dartmouth might want to do something about its " misleading " inclusion in the Congregational Year Book.74 In the case of Dartmouth and ...
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... denomination . Unless it can be checked , we shall soon be a denomination without influence in American life . 104 Though the Baptists were a very small body in 1750 , by 1790 they had become the third - largest denomination in America ...
... denomination . Unless it can be checked , we shall soon be a denomination without influence in American life . 104 Though the Baptists were a very small body in 1750 , by 1790 they had become the third - largest denomination in America ...
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... denomination with all deliberate speed , and together they accounted for 78 percent of the NBC students , 74 percent of the income , 79 percent of the physical plant assets , and 78 percent of the endowment . The race was to the swift ...
... denomination with all deliberate speed , and together they accounted for 78 percent of the NBC students , 74 percent of the income , 79 percent of the physical plant assets , and 78 percent of the endowment . The race was to the swift ...
Contents
The Presbyterians | 123 |
The Methodists | 257 |
The Baptists | 357 |
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