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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... Seminary , 38 . 178. In 1865 Wayland Seminary , a joint effort of the ABHMS and the Freedmen's Bureau , named after the abolitionist president of Brown University , opened in Washington to train black men as preachers and teachers ...
... Seminary , 38 . 178. In 1865 Wayland Seminary , a joint effort of the ABHMS and the Freedmen's Bureau , named after the abolitionist president of Brown University , opened in Washington to train black men as preachers and teachers ...
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... seminary in America . 11 In 1826 Samuel Simon Schmucker , trained and ordained by his father , led in the establishment of Gettysburg Seminary , meant to serve candidates from New York to Virginia . Before the seminary even opened , it ...
... seminary in America . 11 In 1826 Samuel Simon Schmucker , trained and ordained by his father , led in the establishment of Gettysburg Seminary , meant to serve candidates from New York to Virginia . Before the seminary even opened , it ...
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... seminary level . In postbellum America , the Midwest Scandinavians were sending their ministerial candidates down to the Missouri German seminary . But many of them distrusted the state - run " common schools , " and so a network of ...
... seminary level . In postbellum America , the Midwest Scandinavians were sending their ministerial candidates down to the Missouri German seminary . But many of them distrusted the state - run " common schools , " and so a network of ...
Contents
The Presbyterians | 123 |
The Methodists | 257 |
The Baptists | 357 |
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