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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... sectarian control , for there was no ecclesiastical judicatory in New Mexico . This technicality of Congregational discipline was lost on the nonmembers on the board . Nor had any of the teachers been accused of giving the least sectarian ...
... sectarian control , for there was no ecclesiastical judicatory in New Mexico . This technicality of Congregational discipline was lost on the nonmembers on the board . Nor had any of the teachers been accused of giving the least sectarian ...
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... sectarian . " The trustees provided in the draft of their schoolhouse charter that if any sectarian activity ever took place in the building , the school would have to pay rent retroactively from the date of first occupancy , and with ...
... sectarian . " The trustees provided in the draft of their schoolhouse charter that if any sectarian activity ever took place in the building , the school would have to pay rent retroactively from the date of first occupancy , and with ...
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... sectarian was not uncommon , especially in the slipstream of Pietism and rationalism . To illustrate : " Aurora College [ Illinois ] was founded [ 1893 ] and is supported by the Advent Christian Church and by other friends of young ...
... sectarian was not uncommon , especially in the slipstream of Pietism and rationalism . To illustrate : " Aurora College [ Illinois ] was founded [ 1893 ] and is supported by the Advent Christian Church and by other friends of young ...
Contents
The Presbyterians | 123 |
The Methodists | 257 |
The Baptists | 357 |
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