The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches

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W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998 - Christian universities and colleges - 868 pages
James 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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The Presbyterians
123
The Methodists
257
The Baptists
357
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