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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... ministry . The Methodists universally opposed these ideas ; and the illiterate Methodist preachers actually set the ... ministry , ever go into the regular traveling ministry ? The reason is plainly this : having quieted their ...
... ministry . The Methodists universally opposed these ideas ; and the illiterate Methodist preachers actually set the ... ministry , ever go into the regular traveling ministry ? The reason is plainly this : having quieted their ...
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... ministry is to provide structures and relationships that enable persons and groups to make transitions to more comprehensive ways of thinking about their faith and acting out of it . The ecumenical and interfaith campus ministry program ...
... ministry is to provide structures and relationships that enable persons and groups to make transitions to more comprehensive ways of thinking about their faith and acting out of it . The ecumenical and interfaith campus ministry program ...
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... ministry , did not possess the personality or the interest necessary for such involvement.50 Granted the enormity of this demographic projection and the radical threat it posed to the Jesuit ministry which , despite having received an ...
... ministry , did not possess the personality or the interest necessary for such involvement.50 Granted the enormity of this demographic projection and the radical threat it posed to the Jesuit ministry which , despite having received an ...
Contents
The Presbyterians | 123 |
The Methodists | 257 |
The Baptists | 357 |
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