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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... purpose a service to the state , not the church . That duty was the exemplification and transmission of noble character . This would be too subtle an enterprise for religious sponsorship , but it was in any case assured by the quality ...
... purpose a service to the state , not the church . That duty was the exemplification and transmission of noble character . This would be too subtle an enterprise for religious sponsorship , but it was in any case assured by the quality ...
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... purpose of Lafayette was bound to be more explicitly Presbyterian , or at least Christian , than Penn State's . But this was not , " of course , " quite the case . The most one could find , by way of published purpose , was a stated ...
... purpose of Lafayette was bound to be more explicitly Presbyterian , or at least Christian , than Penn State's . But this was not , " of course , " quite the case . The most one could find , by way of published purpose , was a stated ...
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... purpose of the College and in seeking to increase its effectiveness as an institution of Christian learning ? 1972 Version a . Do you approve of the purpose of Davidson College as stated in Article I of the By - Laws ? b . In accepting ...
... purpose of the College and in seeking to increase its effectiveness as an institution of Christian learning ? 1972 Version a . Do you approve of the purpose of Davidson College as stated in Article I of the By - Laws ? b . In accepting ...
Contents
The Presbyterians | 123 |
The Methodists | 257 |
The Baptists | 357 |
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