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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... Convention forbade the university to accept part of a federal research grant . The convention had a standing policy since 1959 that federal funding could be accepted by its colleges and hospitals only for services rendered , never as an ...
... Convention forbade the university to accept part of a federal research grant . The convention had a standing policy since 1959 that federal funding could be accepted by its colleges and hospitals only for services rendered , never as an ...
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... Convention and — as was within their power - with- drawing the convention's power to elect trustees and the requirement that all trustees be North Carolina Baptists . The president of the convention forthwith cut off the annual subsidy ...
... Convention and — as was within their power - with- drawing the convention's power to elect trustees and the requirement that all trustees be North Carolina Baptists . The president of the convention forthwith cut off the annual subsidy ...
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... convention's supervisory powers was only a punctuation mark within a lengthy and unrelieved process of shucking a Baptist tradition that had been an embarrassment and was now becoming a threat . Other Baptist Universities Go Independent ...
... convention's supervisory powers was only a punctuation mark within a lengthy and unrelieved process of shucking a Baptist tradition that had been an embarrassment and was now becoming a threat . Other Baptist Universities Go Independent ...
Contents
The Presbyterians | 123 |
The Methodists | 257 |
The Baptists | 357 |
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