書 名 | Conceiving the Christian college |
作 者 | Duane Litfin |
出 版 項 | Grand Rapids, Michigan :; William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company,; c2004 |
稽 核 項 | vi, 283 pages ;; 23 cm |
標 題 | Church and college |
標 題 | Church and college |
標 題 | Education |
書 目 註 | Includes bibliographical references and index |
內 容 註 | 1. Introduction -- 2. Two academic models : to understand more clearly our own identity -- 3. The centerpiece : to see more fully whom we serve -- 4. A centered education : to keep the center at the center -- 5. It's all God's truth : to strengthen the foundations of Christian thought -- 6. A balanced epistemology : to preserve the idea of truth -- 7. Integrative thinking : prolegomera : to understand the integrative mandate -- 8. Doing integration : to sustain our commitment to the int
egrative task -- 9. Faith and learning : to reinforce our commitment to revealed truth -- 10. The voluntary principle : to reconcile institutional commitments with individual freedoms -- 11. Institutional breadth : to appreciate our institutional uniqueness -- 12. Our place in the academy : to engender a more congenial academic environment |
摘 要 註 | This book is designed to help those who are interested in Christian higher education explore anew the unique features, opportunities, and contemporary challenges of one distinct type of educational institution the Christian college. What distinguishes Conceiving the Christian College from the many other books on this subject is its incisive discussion of a set of crucial ideas widely misunderstood in the world of Christian higher education. Now serving in his eleventh year as president
of one of the nation's foremost Christian colleges, Duane Litfin is well placed to ask pressing questions regarding faith-based education. What is unique about Christian colleges? What is required to sustain them? How do they maintain their bearing in the tumultuous intellectual seas of the twenty-first century? Litfin's themes are large, but they are meant to refocus the conceptual challenges to Christian education in ways that will strengthen both the academic environment of today's Ch
ristian colleges and their impact on culture at large |
ISBN | 0802827837 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 9780802827838 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
LCCN | 2004050607 |