The Future of Baptist Higher Education investigates 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.
Author(s): Donald D. Schmeltekopf
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 274
Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
1: Baptist Identity and Christian Higher Education......Page 15
Part One: Four Models for Baptist Higher Education......Page 35
2: Integrating Faith and Learning in an Ecumenical Context......Page 37
3: Building on a Shared Identity within a Shared History'......Page 65
4: Fostering Dissent in the Postmodern Academy......Page 77
5: Blending Baptist with Orthodox in the Christian University......Page 95
Part Two: Faculty and Students and Baptist Higher Education......Page 111
6: Who Will Our Students Be in a Postmodern, Postdenominational, and Materialistic Age?......Page 113
7: Religious Identity, Academic Reputation, and Atrracting the Best Faculty and Students......Page 125
Part Three: Baptist Higher Education and Its Constituencies......Page 139
8: Is Higher Education a Justifiable Mission of Baptist Churches and Baptist Bodies?......Page 141
9: Can Baptist Institutions of Higher Education Meet the Needs of Increasingly Diverse Constituencies?......Page 157
10: Can Baptist Institutions of Higher Education Meet the Needs of Youth in a Post-9/11 World?......Page 171
11: To Whom Are Baptist Colleges and Universities Accountable?......Page 183
12: The University, the Church, and the Culture......Page 199
Part 4: Conclusion......Page 213
13: The Future of Baptist Higher Education: Secular or Religious?......Page 215
14: Can the Secular Be Sanctified?......Page 231
Notes......Page 245
Contributors......Page 275
