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The future of Baptist higher education

Author: Donald D Schmeltekopf; Dianna M Vitanza
Publisher: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, ©2006.
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Investigates four key issues that inform Baptist efforts at higher education - the denominational conflict that has afflicted Baptists since the 1980s, the secularisation of higher education in  Read more...

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Future of Baptist higher education.
Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2006
(OCoLC)607871598
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Donald D Schmeltekopf; Dianna M Vitanza
ISBN: 1932792279 9781932792270
OCLC Number: 70258898
Description: x, 274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Baptist identity and Christian higher education / Donald D. Schmeltekopf and Dianna M. Vitanza --
Integrating faith and learning in an ecumenical context / David P. Gushee --
Building on a shared identity within a shared history / William E. Hull --
Fostering dissent in the postmodern academy / Bill J. Leonard --
Blending Baptist with orthodox in the Christian university / David S. Dockery --
Who will our students be in a postmodern, postdenominational, and materialistic age? / Richard Franklin --
Religious identity, academic reputation, and attracting the best faculty and students / Larry Lyon. Is higher education a justifiable mission of Baptist churches and Baptist bodies? / James C. Denison --
Can Baptist institutions of higher education meet the needs of increasingly diverse constituencies? / Albert Reyes --
Can Baptist institutions of higher education meet the needs of youth in a post-9/11 world? / Denton Lotz --
To whom are Baptist colleges and universities accountable? Response 1 / Daniel Vestal ; Response 2 / R. Kirby Godsey --
The university, the church, and the culture / Thomas E. Corts --
The future of Baptist higher education: secular or religious? / Martin E. Marty --
Can the secular be sanctified? / Curtis W. Freeman.
Other Titles: The future of Baptist higher education /
Responsibility: Donald D. Schmeltekopf and Dianna M. Vitanza, editors.
Local System Bib Number:
189763
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