Building the Christian Academy

Building the Christian Academy
ISBN-10
0802847447
ISBN-13
9780802847447
Category
Education
Pages
122
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
W.B. Eerdmans
Author
Arthur Frank Holmes

Description

Until Relatively Recently, the history of higher education in the West was the story of a Christian academic tradition that played a major role in both intellectual history and the history of the church. Over the last one hundred years, however, we have witnessed the progressive secularization of higher education. George Marsden goes so far as to suggest that the American university has lost its soul. But what was that putatively Christian soul? Precisely what in the Christian tradition has now been lost? And what should we know about that tradition as a condition of practical wisdom for the present?

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