The Future of Baptist Higher Education

by Schmeltekopf, Donald D.

• ISBN13: 9781932792270
• ISBN10: 1932792279
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-30
• Publisher: Baylor Univ Pr

Summary

The Future of Baptist Higher Educationinvestigates four key issues that inform Baptist efforts at higher education -- the denominational conflict that has afflicted Baptists since the 1980s, the secularization of higher education in America, the dominance of the market-driven tendencies in American higher education today, and the meaning of Christian higher education, but more specifically, the meaning of Baptist higher education. This volume clearly illustrates that the meaning of Baptist and Christian higher education, as with the Christian life itself, is far more complex than any one imperial interpretation.

Table of Contents

Baptist identity and Christian higher education	p. 3
Integrating faith and learning in an ecumenical context	p. 25
Building on a shared identity within a shared history	p. 53
Fostering dissent in the postmodern academy	p. 65
Blending Baptist with orthodox in the Christian university	p. 83
Who will our students be in a postmodern, postdenominational, and materialistic age?	p. 101
Religious identity, academic reputation, and attracting the best faculty and students	p. 113
Is higher education a justifiable mission of Baptist churches and Baptist bodies?	p. 129
Can Baptist institutions of higher education meet the needs of increasingly diverse constituencies?	p. 145
Can Baptist institutions of higher education meet the needs of youth in a post-9/11 world?	p. 159
To whom are Baptist colleges and universities accountable?
Response 1	p. 171
Response 2	p. 177
The university, the church, and the culture	p. 187
The future of Baptist higher education : secular or religious?	p. 203
Can the secular be sanctified?	p. 219
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