The Soul Of A Christian University

Author : Douglas V. Henry
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and the Soul of the University written by Douglas V. Henry and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars explore the role of faith in the university setting

Author : Perry L. Glanzer
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830891633
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restoring the Soul of the University written by Perry L. Glanzer and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Politics/Public Life Has the American university gained the whole world but lost its soul? In terms of money, prestige, power, and freedom, American universities appear to have gained the academic world. But at what cost? We live in the age of the fragmented multiversity that has no unifying soul or mission. The multiversity in a post-Christian culture is characterized instead by curricular division, the professionalization of the disciplines, the expansion of administration, the loss of community, and the idolization of athletics. The situation is not hopeless. According to Perry L. Glanzer, Nathan F. Alleman, and Todd C. Ream, Christian universities can recover their soul—but to do so will require reimagining excellence in a time of exile, placing the liberating arts before the liberal arts, and focusing on the worship, love, and knowledge of God as central to the university. Restoring the Soul of the University is a pioneering work that charts the history of the university and casts an inspiring vision for the future of higher education.

Author : George M. Marsden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190073314
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soul of the American University Revisited written by George M. Marsden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume ... is a revision and updating of The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994)"--Acknowledgments

Author : Robert Benne
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802847041
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality with Soul written by Robert Benne and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that, despite much evidence to the contrary, there are still Christian colleges and universities of high academic quality that have also kept their religious heritages publicly relevant. Respected scholar Robert Benne explores how six schools from six different religious traditions (Calvin College, Wheaton College, St. Olaf College, Valparaiso University, Baylor University, and the University of Notre Dame) have maintained "quality with soul." These constructive case studies examine the vision, ethos, and personnel policies of each school, showing how--and why--its religious foundation remains strong.

Author : Arthur F. Holmes
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467419176
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idea of a Christian College written by Arthur F. Holmes and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1987-03-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of a classic text provides a concise case for the role of the Christian college and its distinctive mission and contribution. Holmes has extensively revised several chapters and included two new chapters: "Liberal Arts as Career Preparation" and "The Marks of an Educated Person."

Author : George M. Marsden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197741252
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soul of the American University written by George M. Marsden and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the 20th century, American universities required students to attend chapel; today, religion has been pushed to the margins. Describing this transformation, the study relates the history of leading institutions at critical periods and calls for greater acceptance of religious values.

Author : Huston Smith
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061752584
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Christianity written by Huston Smith and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have tried to describe a Christianity which is fully compatible with everything we now know, and to indicate why Christians feel privileged to give their lives to it." —Huston Smith In his most personal and passionate book on the spiritual life, renowned author, scholar, and teacher of world religions Huston Smith turns to his own life-long religion, Christianity. With stories and personal anecdotes, Smith not only presents the basic beliefs and essential teachings of Christianity, but argues why religious belief matters in today's secular world. Though there is a wide variety of contemporary interpretations of Christianity—some of them conflicting—Smith cuts through these to describe Christianity's "Great Tradition," the common faith of the first millennium of believers, which is the trunk of the tree from which Christianity's many branches, twigs, and leaves have grown. This is not the exclusivist Christianity of strict fundamentalists, nor the liberal, watered-down Christianity practiced by many contemporary churchgoers. In exposing biblical literalism as unworkable as well as enumerating the mistakes of modern secularists, Smith presents the very soul of a real and substantive faith, one still relevant and worth believing in. Smith rails against the hijacked Christianity of politicians who exploit it for their own needs. He decries the exercise of business that widens the gap between rich and poor, and fears education has lost its sense of direction. For Smith, the media has become a business that sensationalizes news rather than broadening our understanding, and art and music have become commercial and shocking rather than enlightening. Smith reserves his harshest condemnation, however, for secular modernity, which has stemmed from the misreading of science—the mistake of assuming that "absence of evidence" of a scientific nature is "evidence of absence." These mistakes have all but banished faith in transcendence and the Divine from mainstream culture and pushed it to the margins. Though the situation is grave, these modern misapprehensions can be corrected, says Smith, by reexamining the great tradition of Christianity's first millennium and reaping the lessons it holds for us today. This fresh examination of the Christian worldview, its history, and its major branches provides the deepest, most authentic vision of Christianity—one that is both tolerant and substantial, traditional and relevant.

Author : Stephen Thomas Beers
Publisher : ACU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780891125204
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soul of a Christian University written by Stephen Thomas Beers and published by ACU Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George M. Marsden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195106504
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soul of the American University written by George M. Marsden and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the decline in religious influence in American universities, discussing why this transformation has occurred.

Author : William C. Ringenberg
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christian College written by William C. Ringenberg and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative and comprehensive guide to the institutional history of Protestant liberal arts education in America. Arranged chronologically from the seventeenth century to the present day.