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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... evangelical work . Every period of successful evangelical activity , from the Christian era down , has blossomed into such schools , and these schools have been the conservators of all achievements gained , and the essential preparation ...
... evangelical work . Every period of successful evangelical activity , from the Christian era down , has blossomed into such schools , and these schools have been the conservators of all achievements gained , and the essential preparation ...
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... evangelical ones . " 1 Though many ( but not all ) colleges and universities which call themselves " evangelical " and " committed Christian " are affiliated with denominations ( some with plural affiliations ) , like evangelical ...
... evangelical ones . " 1 Though many ( but not all ) colleges and universities which call themselves " evangelical " and " committed Christian " are affiliated with denominations ( some with plural affiliations ) , like evangelical ...
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... evangelicals do not function as a church or even a denomina- tion , and do not take it as an evangelical task constantly and corporately to re- discern and re - state and re - apply and re - defend the faith once delivered to the saints ...
... evangelicals do not function as a church or even a denomina- tion , and do not take it as an evangelical task constantly and corporately to re- discern and re - state and re - apply and re - defend the faith once delivered to the saints ...
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The Presbyterians | 123 |
The Methodists | 257 |
The Baptists | 357 |
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