The Christian college : a history of Protestant higher education in America / William C. Ringenberg ; introduction by Mark A. Noll.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2006.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 316 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0801031451 (pbk.)
  • 9780801031458 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LC 621 .R56 2006
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Contents:
Introduction : the Christian colleges and American intellectual traditions / Mark A. Noll -- THE COLONIAL PERIOD. The pervading Christian purpose of colonial education -- Instructors and the instruction -- Students and student life -- THE OLD-TIME COLLEGE. The expansion of Christian higher education -- The continuing mission -- A college education -- The extracurriculum -- The state university as a Protestant college -- NEW COLLEGES AND NEW PROGRAMS. Higher education for blacks -- Colleges for women -- Colleges founded by the newly rich and the new immigrants -- The new curriculum and its effects -- Athletics and fraternities -- THE MOVEMENT TOWARD SECULARIZATION. Sources of secularization -- Marks of secularization -- The process of secularization : the universities -- The process of secularization : the church colleges -- Varieties of Protestant higher education by 1980 -- THE RESPONSE TO SECULARIZATION. The YMCA and other student Christian organizations -- The Bible college movement -- Fundamentalism and higher education -- THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION AFTER 1945. The emerging line-up of the continuing Christian college -- The emerging identity of the continuing Christian college -- In partnership with the government -- ON TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. The recovery continues -- New constituencies and extended borders -- Enlarging the faith and learning dialogue -- The mainline reassesses -- The external governors -- Epilogue.
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"A RenewedMinds book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-301) and index.

Introduction : the Christian colleges and American intellectual traditions / Mark A. Noll -- THE COLONIAL PERIOD. The pervading Christian purpose of colonial education -- Instructors and the instruction -- Students and student life -- THE OLD-TIME COLLEGE. The expansion of Christian higher education -- The continuing mission -- A college education -- The extracurriculum -- The state university as a Protestant college -- NEW COLLEGES AND NEW PROGRAMS. Higher education for blacks -- Colleges for women -- Colleges founded by the newly rich and the new immigrants -- The new curriculum and its effects -- Athletics and fraternities -- THE MOVEMENT TOWARD SECULARIZATION. Sources of secularization -- Marks of secularization -- The process of secularization : the universities -- The process of secularization : the church colleges -- Varieties of Protestant higher education by 1980 -- THE RESPONSE TO SECULARIZATION. The YMCA and other student Christian organizations -- The Bible college movement -- Fundamentalism and higher education -- THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION AFTER 1945. The emerging line-up of the continuing Christian college -- The emerging identity of the continuing Christian college -- In partnership with the government -- ON TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. The recovery continues -- New constituencies and extended borders -- Enlarging the faith and learning dialogue -- The mainline reassesses -- The external governors -- Epilogue.

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