Can Hope Endure?: A Historical Case Study in Christian Higher EducationWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2005 - 249 páginas The spate of books written recently on Christian higher education highlights a common theme -- how numerous colleges founded by church bodies have gradually lost their religious moorings, often culminating in what historian George Marsden calls "established nonbelief." Can Hope Endure? examines the history of Hope College in Holland, Michigan, as it has struggled to find a faithful middle way between secularization and withdrawal from mainstream academic and American culture. Authors James Kennedy and Caroline Simon track Hope College's responses to various social and intellectual challenges through careful analysis of school records, newspaper stories, extant histories, and interviews with faculty members and past presidents. Hope's history reveals that the school is exceptional, having followed the predictable trajectory, yet changing course in some ways. Given this unusual history, the story of why and how Hope College moved toward reestablishing the role of religion in its institutional life yields important lessons for other schools facing the same challenges. Neither an attack on Hope College nor the kind of celebratory institutional history that so many schools have authorized, this book is instead a thoughtful, instructive study written by two professors who have witnessed firsthand many of Hope's struggles to retain its identity and purpose. The book's narrative is enriched by the "binocular vision" provided by a professional historian and a professional philosopher, and collaboration has afforded Kennedy and Simon the critical distance necessary to ask hard questions about Hope and, by extension, other institutions like it. Can Hope Endure? will be of real interest not only to readers associated with Hope College but also to those following or participating in the ongoing conversation about Christianity and higher education. |
Contenido
Hope and Durability | 1 |
Can Christian Colleges Long Endure? | 3 |
Forces Testing Endurance | 10 |
Tensile Strength or Shapelessness? | 17 |
The Roots of Hope Colleges Middle Way Religious and Cultural Contours 18661945 | 27 |
Western Men Eastern Money | 28 |
Local Morality and Churchly Vigilance | 40 |
Dutch Pilgrims and American Citizens | 54 |
A Lengthening Hyphen in ChurchRelated? | 142 |
Hopes NeoMiddle Way 19721987 | 149 |
Excellence in the Context of Faith | 150 |
Negotiating the Shape of the NeoMiddle Way | 154 |
Education in the NeoMiddle Way | 157 |
Religious Freedom for Whom? | 161 |
Hopes Unsettled Religious Settlement | 164 |
Testing Hopes Endurance 19871999 | 169 |
The Goal of the Middle Way Elevating Humanity through Educating Christians 18661945 | 67 |
A Staunch and Certain Christianity | 68 |
Public Schools and Christian Colleges | 70 |
Early Curriculum and Faculty | 75 |
Our Bible and Science Departments Do Not Quarrel | 80 |
Manly Men and Women of Granite | 83 |
Messengers of Hope and the Elevation of Humanity | 87 |
A Tradition of SelfSacrifice and Service | 93 |
Continuity and Change within Hopes Middle Way 19251963 | 97 |
Evangelistic to Evangelical 19251945 | 98 |
Controversy and Control 19451953 | 104 |
Sacrificing the Spirit to Survival? 19531963 | 113 |
The Babe and the Bathwater | 121 |
Crisis for Hopes Middle Way 19631972 | 127 |
Piety versus Competence | 129 |
Search Confrontation and Liberating Minds | 135 |
Enacting a Socially Relevant Christianity | 139 |
A City on a Hill | 171 |
The Hiring Policy | 174 |
Local Morality Revised in a New Key | 180 |
The Gathering Storm | 187 |
A FullScale Tempest | 196 |
Anchored or Adrift in the Middle Way? | 202 |
Calling Creativity and the Future of Christian Higher Education | 207 |
Calling and Creativity | 209 |
The Challenges of Genuine Ecumenicity | 212 |
All Excellent Things Are Difficult | 217 |
Identity Faithfulness and Enduring Hope | 221 |
Chronology of Hope College Presidents | 231 |
Biographical Notes on Selected Figures in Hope Colleges History | 232 |
Selected Bibliography | 241 |
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