TY - BOOK AU - Ringenberg,William C. TI - The Christian college: a history of Protestant higher education in America SN - 0801031451 (pbk.) AV - LC 621 .R56 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Grand Rapids, Mich. PB - Baker Academic KW - Christian universities and colleges KW - United States KW - History KW - Protestant churches KW - Hoger onderwijs KW - gtt KW - Bijzonder onderwijs KW - Protestantisme KW - Verenigde Staten N1 - "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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0611/2005055586.html ER -