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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... schools for southern blacks and western Indians , and sixty - four secondary schools , with a total enrollment of 54,000 students . 134 But the University of Chicago accounted for about 60 percent of the students ( collegiate and ...
... schools for southern blacks and western Indians , and sixty - four secondary schools , with a total enrollment of 54,000 students . 134 But the University of Chicago accounted for about 60 percent of the students ( collegiate and ...
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... schools of their own . Many argued in favor of the common schools , not only because they were economical but also because they were , as they thought , thoroughly American . To resort to a network of parochial schools was , they argued ...
... schools of their own . Many argued in favor of the common schools , not only because they were economical but also because they were , as they thought , thoroughly American . To resort to a network of parochial schools was , they argued ...
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... schools or seminaries.210 This was to be a turning point of sorts , and as so often happens , the rhetoric was ... schools in existence , there were only a handful of community ( locally sponsored ) high schools . By 1955 the community ...
... schools or seminaries.210 This was to be a turning point of sorts , and as so often happens , the rhetoric was ... schools in existence , there were only a handful of community ( locally sponsored ) high schools . By 1955 the community ...
Contents
The Presbyterians | 123 |
The Methodists | 257 |
The Baptists | 357 |
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