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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... teacher , " the study noted that since Baptists constituted less than 10 percent of all registered teachers , Baptist colleges were going to be hard put to maintain their academic excellence if obliged to draw only on Baptists for teachers ...
... teacher , " the study noted that since Baptists constituted less than 10 percent of all registered teachers , Baptist colleges were going to be hard put to maintain their academic excellence if obliged to draw only on Baptists for teachers ...
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... teachers will be Christians . Such teachers , having Christian conscious- ness , Christian convictions , and Christian courage , are essential to the devel- opment of Christian personality . Their example and their varied activities ...
... teachers will be Christians . Such teachers , having Christian conscious- ness , Christian convictions , and Christian courage , are essential to the devel- opment of Christian personality . Their example and their varied activities ...
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... teachers who came over from Germany proved themselves quite deficient in that tongue . Also , Missouri leaders smelled the taint of rationalism in the training of these imported schoolmasters . Eventually the Americans came to the ...
... teachers who came over from Germany proved themselves quite deficient in that tongue . Also , Missouri leaders smelled the taint of rationalism in the training of these imported schoolmasters . Eventually the Americans came to the ...
Contents
The Presbyterians | 123 |
The Methodists | 257 |
The Baptists | 357 |
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