In this book, Douglas Sloan explores the impact that the Protestant theological renaissance had on American colleges and universities. In particular, Sloan focuses on the church's most significant claim to have a continuing voice in higher education: its particular ability to demonstrate a connection between faith and the dominant modern conceptions of knowledge. Sloan looks at the ways the mainline Protestant churches did, and did not, deal effectively with this faith-knowledge situation and the subsequent cessation of the church's large-scale engagement with American higher education.
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Douglas Sloan is Professor Emeritus of History and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City. His published works include The Scottish Enlightenment and the American College Ideal and Faith and Knowledge: Mainline Protestantism and American Higher Education.
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This review is from: Faith and Knowledge: Mainline Protestantism and American Higher Education (Paperback)
Far from the complete story. By its own account, the book does not cover how or where the Catholic Church engaged higher education during the 1930's through the 1960's. What is covered, however, is remarkable. From the Christian Scholar to William G. Pollard.
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The history of American higher education, until well after the middle of the nineteenth century, can scarcely be understood apart from the history of American Protestantism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Reinhold Niebuhr, Richard Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Faculty Christian Fellowship, Teachers College, United States, Rudolf Steiner, World War, College Teaching, The Mind's Adventure, Danforth Foundation, Garden City, New Haven, Notre Dame, Owen Barfield, Columbia University, Hazen Foundation, National Council of Churches, Amos Wilder, Oxford University Press, Kenneth Irving Brown, Association Press, Douglas Sloan, John Cobb New!
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The history of American higher education, until well after the middle of the nineteenth century, can scarcely be understood apart from the history of American Protestantism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Reinhold Niebuhr, Richard Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Faculty Christian Fellowship, Teachers College, United States, Rudolf Steiner, World War, College Teaching, The Mind's Adventure, Danforth Foundation, Garden City, New Haven, Notre Dame, Owen Barfield, Columbia University, Hazen Foundation, National Council of Churches, Amos Wilder, Oxford University Press, Kenneth Irving Brown, Association Press, Douglas Sloan, John Cobb New!
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- Higher Learning by Harvard University Press on 4 pages
- The Study of Religion in Colleges and Universities by Paul Ramsey on page 70, page 107, and page 207
- Beyond the Postmodern Mind: The Place of Meaning in a Global Civilization by Huston Smith in Front Matter, page 29, and page 241
- Education in the United States by Robert L. Church on page 28, page 174, and page 211
- New Religions (New Religions, Paper) by Jacob Needleman on page 159, page 175, and page 176
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- Called to Teach: The Vocation of the Presbyterian Educator by Duncan S. Ferguson on 6 pages
- The Future of Religious Colleges: The Proceedings of the Harvard Conference on the Future of Religious Colleges October 6-7, 2000 by Paul J. Dovre on 5 pages
- The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education by Professor D. G. Hart on 5 pages
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