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A Theology of Higher Education

Author : Mike Higton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191613347
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book A Theology of Higher Education written by Mike Higton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Mike Higton provides a constructive critique of Higher Education policy and practice in the UK, the US and beyond, from the standpoint of Christian theology. He focuses on the role universities can and should play in forming students and staff in intellectual virtue, in sustaining vibrant communities of inquiry, and in serving the public good. He argues both that modern secular universities can be a proper context for Christians to pursue their calling as disciples to learn and to teach, and that Christians can contribute to the flourishing of such universities as institutions devoted to learning for the common good. In the process he sets out a vision of the good university as secular and religiously plural, as socially inclusive, and as deeply and productively entangled with the surrounding society. Along the way, he engages with a range of historical examples (the medieval University of Paris, the University of Berlin in the nineteenth century, and John Henry Newman's work in Oxford and Dublin) and with a range of contemporary writers on Higher Education from George Marsden to Stanley Hauerwas and from David Ford to Rowan Williams.

Organizing a Christian Mind

Author : Denise Lardner Carmody
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Organizing a Christian Mind written by Denise Lardner Carmody and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""The sadness I feel," writes Denise Carmody, "stems from watching the capitulation of good schools, both Christian and secular, to the pragmatism of recent times and their concomitant loss of a pervasive vision of their enterprise." Such capitulation has produced a serious crisis in American higher education, including also church-sponsored higher education, leading to a preoccupation with research and publication instead of teaching and to frequent inattention to ultimate human questions." "Following an introductory discussion of teaching, research and publication, and "the difference that God makes," the book moves through such topics as human nature, physical nature, politics, divinity or ultimate reality, and education (including community services, academic freedom, and the arts and sciences)." "A concluding chapter focuses on vision in higher education, that is, gaining a clear sense of what a collegiate venture wants to do and the kind of curriculum and teaching that squares with what a college is trying to achieve."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Theology and Religious Studies in Higher Education

Author : D.L. Bird
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144115664X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Theology and Religious Studies in Higher Education written by D.L. Bird and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology and religious studies co-exist in the majority of departments in higher education institutions within the UK, yet there has been very little debate or discussion on how these two disciplines relate to one another in this context and on a more general level. This new collection of essays aims to redress the balance and to add to fruitful discussion in this area Including essays by some of today's leading academics on the sometimes contentious relationship between religious studies - or the study of religions - and theology, this volume is international in scope, with contributions from scholars from the UK, USA, South Africa, Netherlands, Sweden and Iran. Many of the essays offer a contextualised account of the evolving relationship between the disciplines. The contributors address such issues as the place of theology within today's universities; the problem of clashing methodologies in theology and religious studies; the possibility for a 'theological religious studies'; approaching the study of religions without theology; interdisciplinary approaches for bridging the theology/religious studies divide; and the place of biblical studies in the theology/religious studies debate.

Christian Higher Education

Author : Joel Carpenter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802871054
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Christian Higher Education written by Joel Carpenter and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh report and interpretation of what is happening at the intersection of two great contemporary movements: the rapid growth of higher education worldwide and the rise of world Christianity. It features on-site, evaluative studies by scholars from Africa, Asia, North America, and South America. Christian Higher Education: A Global Reconnaissance visits some of the hotspots of Christian university development, such as South Korea, Kenya, and Nigeria, and compares what is happening there to places in Canada, the United States, and Europe, where Christian higher education has a longer history. Very little research until now has examined the scope and direction of Christian higher education throughout the world, so this volume fills a real gap.

Doing More with Life

Author : Michael Robert Miller
Publisher : Baylor University Press
ISBN 13 : 1932792805
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Doing More with Life written by Michael Robert Miller and published by Baylor University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vocation is most often linked with a specific calling for those in professional ministry. Doing More with Life explores the way higher education can expand this limited understanding of vocation. Specifically, this volume shows that higher education can clarify how God calls all people, allow mentoring across specific vocations, and inspire future generations to think of their lives as vocations.

The University Gets Religion

Author : Darryl G. Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The University Gets Religion written by Darryl G. Hart and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first sustained history of the academic study of religion at American universities, The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education is a timely book that explores the present-day implications of religious studies' Protestant past."--BOOK JACKET.

Christian Higher Education

Author : David S. Dockery
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433556561
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Christian Higher Education written by David S. Dockery and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our world is growing increasingly complex and confused—a unique and urgent context that calls for a grounded and fresh approach to Christian higher education. Christian higher education involves a distinctive way of thinking about teaching, learning, scholarship, curriculum, student life, administration, and governance that is rooted in the historic Christian faith. In this volume, twenty-nine experts from a variety of fields, including theology, the humanities, science, mathematics, social science, philosophy, the arts, and professional programs, explore how the foundational beliefs of Christianity influence higher education and its disciplines. Aimed at equipping the next generation to better engage the shifting cultural context, this book calls students, professors, trustees, administrators, and church leaders to a renewed commitment to the distinctive work of Christian higher education—for the good of the society, the good of the church, and the glory of God.

The Idea of a Christian College

Author : Todd C. Ream
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610973275
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of a Christian College written by Todd C. Ream and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1975, Arthur F. Holmes published The Idea of a Christian College. At the time he could not have imagined his book would gather such a large following. This work's thoughtful yet accessible style made it a long-standing choice for reading lists on Christian college and university campuses across the country and around the world. Countless numbers of first-year students have read and discussed his book as part of their introduction to the Christian college experience. However, enough has changed since 1975 in both the Church and Academy to now merit a full-scale reexamination. In this book, Todd C. Ream and Perry L. Glanzer account for changes in how people view the Church and themselves as human agents, and propose a vision for the Christian college in light of the fact that so many Christian colleges now look and act more like research universities. Including topics such as the co-curricular, common worship, and diversity, Ream and Glanzer craft a vision that strives to see into the future by drawing on the riches of the past. First-year students as well as new faculty members and administrators will benefit from the insights in this book in ways previous generations benefitted from Arthur Holmes's efforts. "

Faith and Learning

Author : David S. Dockery
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433673118
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Faith and Learning written by David S. Dockery and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two dozen Christian higher education professionals thoroughly explore the question of the faith's place on the university campus, whether in administrative matters, the broader academic world, or in student life.

Building Catholic Higher Education

Author : Christian Smith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625642520
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Building Catholic Higher Education written by Christian Smith and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Catholic universities and colleges are wrestling today with how to develop in ways that faithfully serve their mission in Catholic higher education without either secularizing or becoming sectarian. Major challenges are faced when trying to simultaneously build and sustain excellence in undergraduate teaching, strengthen faculty research and publishing, and deepen the authentically Catholic character of education. This book uses the particular case of the University of Notre Dame to raise larger issues, to make substantive proposals, and thus to contribute to a national conversation affecting all Catholic universities and colleges in the United States (and perhaps beyond) today. Its arguments focus particularly on challenging questions around the recruitment, hiring, and formation of faculty in Catholic universities and colleges.

Eastern Orthodox Christianity and American Higher Education

Author : Ann Mitsakos Bezzerides
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268101299
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Eastern Orthodox Christianity and American Higher Education written by Ann Mitsakos Bezzerides and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, the American academy has engaged in a wide-ranging discourse on faith and learning, religion and higher education, and Christianity and the academy. Eastern Orthodox Christians, however, have rarely participated in these conversations. The contributors to this volume aim to reverse this trend by offering original insights from Orthodox Christian perspectives that contribute to the ongoing discussion about religion, higher education, and faith and learning in the United States. The book is divided into two parts. Essays in the first part explore the historical experiences and theological traditions that inform (and sometimes explain) Orthodox approaches to the topic of religion and higher education—in ways that often set them apart from their Protestant and Roman Catholic counterparts. Those in the second part problematize and reflect on Orthodox thought and practice from diverse disciplinary contexts in contemporary higher education. The contributors to this volume offer provocative insights into philosophical questions about the relevance and application of Orthodox ideas in the religious and secular academy, as well as cross-disciplinary treatments of Orthodoxy as an identity marker, pedagogical framework, and teaching and research subject.

The Christian Academic in Higher Education

Author : John Sullivan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319696297
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Christian Academic in Higher Education written by John Sullivan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a Christian engagement with the realities of academic life and work. Examining this topic from intellectual, institutional and spiritual perspectives, the author explores how the two identities – as a Christian and an academic – can both coexist and complement one another. The author provides a ‘road map’ for academics demonstrating the interaction between religious faith and the responsibilities, challenges and opportunities of university scholarship and teaching. Addressing questions such as the contentious nature of religious faith in the university environment, the expression of faith within the role of professor, and the consequences of consecrating oneself to learning, this pioneering and practical volume will be relevant to Christian scholars in any academic discipline.

Humanistic Teaching and the Place of Ethical and Religious Values in Higher Education

Author : Edwin E. Aubrey
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512814032
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Humanistic Teaching and the Place of Ethical and Religious Values in Higher Education written by Edwin E. Aubrey and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing emphasis on a "practical" education in this technological age has threatened to deprive more and more students of a thorough schooling in the humanities. In this book Edwin E. Aubrey seeks to show how humanistic values and the humanistic spirit may better be served in higher education. Aubrey examines the place of the humanities and ethical and religious teachings in our universities and colleges. His detailed study provides a clear definition of the objectives of humanistic teaching as well as an analysis of the impediments to the full realization of a humanities program, and offers concrete proposals for improving the present situation. Part Two of the book is devoted to the nature and place of ethical and religious values in the university curriculum.

A Theology of Higher Education

Author : Mike Higton
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019964392X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book A Theology of Higher Education written by Mike Higton and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a constructive critique of Higher Education policy and practice from the standpoint of Christian theology. He focuses on the role universities can and should play in forming students and staff in intellectual virtue, in sustaining vibrant communities of inquiry, and in serving the public good.

Educating for Faith and Justice

Author : Thomas P. Rausch
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814657168
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Educating for Faith and Justice written by Thomas P. Rausch and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholic colleges and universities play a crucial role in handing on a rich faith tradition to young adults today. As these institutions have become more professional and pluralistic, many are asking how effective they are at carrying out the religious mission which is central to their identity: Are Catholic colleges and universities significantly different from less expensive state institutions or from other private colleges and universities? Are they still committed to the search for truth, which is really the search for God? Thomas Rausch, an eminent educator, is a Catholic priest long interested in Catholic theology as a work of the church, not just of the academy. He insists we must also ask of Catholic higher education today: Does it truly form students in the faith that does justice, or does it simply speed their passage into successful corporate lifestyles? Does it help students come to a personal encounter with the divine mystery revealed in Jesus? Keeping these questions before them, Rausch and five other contributors to this volume provide wisdom, insight, and concrete examples of how Catholic higher education can indeed foster faith that leads to a more just world. Thomas P. Rausch, SJ, is the T. Marie Chilton Professor of Catholic Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is author of numerous books, including I Believe in God: A Reflection on the Apostles' Creed, Being Catholic in a Culture of Choice, and Towards a Truly Catholic Church (Liturgical Press).

Restoring the Soul of the University

Author : Perry L. Glanzer
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830891633
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 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.

Faith and Knowledge

Author : Douglas Sloan
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664228668
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Faith and Knowledge written by Douglas Sloan and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sloan explores the impact that the Protestant theological renaissance (1925-1960) had on American colleges and universities, focusing in particular on the church's most significant claim to have a continuing voice in higher education. He traces the role of the national ecumenical and denominational organizations, and studies the changing place of college chaplains.