Contributor
Carpenter, Joel A.
Imprint:St. Paul, Minn. : Christian University Press ; Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. [distributor], c1987.
Descriptionxvi, 304 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note:Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Christian College Coalition and the Christian College Consortium, held at the Billy Graham Center in Wheaton, Ill., in May 1985.
Note:Introduction: Christian colleges and American culture / Timothy L. Smith -- I. ASSESSING THE HERITAGE: -- Christianity and the university: the medieval and reformation legacies / John Van Engen -- Reformation and puritan ideals of education / Leland Ryken -- The Revolution, the Enlightenment, and Christian higher education in the early republic / Mark A. Noll -- The old-time college, 1800-1865 / William C. Ringenberg -- The university arrives in America, 1870-1930: Christian traditionalism during the academic revolution / Mark A. Noll -- The bible schools and conservative evangelical higher education, 1880-1940 / Virginia Lieson Brereton -- The shaping of evangelical higher education since World War II / Thomas A. Askew -- II. REFINING THE VISION: Evangelical colleges and the challenge of Christian thinking / Nathan O. Hatch -- The contribution of theological studies to the christian liberal arts / William A. Dyrness -- Bringing christian criteria to bear on academic work / Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen -- Teaching for justice / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Knowing and doing; the christian college in contemporary society / Richard J. Mouw -- III. ADVANCING THE MISSION: The tasks of evangelical christian colleges / Warren Bryan Martin -- Rendering unto Caesar: the dilemma of college-government relations / David K. Winter -- Consumerism and the christian college: a call to life in an age of death / Douglas Frank -- The gospel mandate for an inclusive curriculum / Ruth A. Schmidt -- Minorities in evangelical higher education / Alvaro L. Nieves -- Why no major evangelical university? The loss and recovery of evangelical advanced scholarship / George M. Marsden.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies.
