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Faith and Knowledge: Mainline Protestantism and American Higher Education, by Douglas Sloan, analyzes a brief renaissance in American Protestant theology from 1925 to 1960. The best parts of Faith and Knowledge describe how Reinhold Niebuhr, H. Richard Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich gained wide influence in mainstream academia with their groundbreaking new theologies. Sloan's history is written primarily for Christians who want to do faith-based scholarship today, yet this contemporary concern remains appropriately understated for most of the book. As a result, Faith and Knowledge is a valuable contribution to the field of history and to the Christian faith. --Michael Joseph Gross
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Sloan concludes that the "faith-knowledge issue" is the most important of the modern age and that "mainline American Protestantism" seems briefly and dimly to have been aware of this. But the conclusion is no more significant than the four overlapping histories by which it is reached: the emergence of the research university; "the Protestant theological renaissance" (1925-60); the engagement of mainline Protestantism with higher education in the U.S. from the beginning of that renaissance until a decade after its end; and the rise of postmodernism. Sloan quotes a state university chancellor who said in 1900 that the religious statistics of his university would lead one to believe that it was "the collegium de propaganda fide for the entire western hemisphere." According to Sloan, the "faith" propagated by the university system is a separation of faith and knowledge not yet adequately addressed by theologians. Most of the book is devoted to making that case, which is important in its own right. But the case and Sloan's reflections will also be of interest to theologians and others seeking "a genuine postmodernism." Steve Schroeder
Faith and Knowledge: Mainline Protestantism and American Higher Education, by Douglas Sloan, analyzes a brief renaissance in American Protestant theology from 1925 to 1960. The best parts of Faith and Knowledge describe how Reinhold Niebuhr, H. Richard Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich gained wide influence in mainstream academia with their groundbreaking new theologies. Sloan's history is written primarily for Christians who want to do faith-based scholarship today, yet this contemporary concern remains appropriately understated for most of the book. As a result, Faith and Knowledge is a valuable contribution to the field of history and to the Christian faith. --Michael Joseph Gross
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Sloan concludes that the "faith-knowledge issue" is the most important of the modern age and that "mainline American Protestantism" seems briefly and dimly to have been aware of this. But the conclusion is no more significant than the four overlapping histories by which it is reached: the emergence of the research university; "the Protestant theological renaissance" (1925-60); the engagement of mainline Protestantism with higher education in the U.S. from the beginning of that renaissance until a decade after its end; and the rise of postmodernism. Sloan quotes a state university chancellor who said in 1900 that the religious statistics of his university would lead one to believe that it was "the collegium de propaganda fide for the entire western hemisphere." According to Sloan, the "faith" propagated by the university system is a separation of faith and knowledge not yet adequately addressed by theologians. Most of the book is devoted to making that case, which is important in its own right. But the case and Sloan's reflections will also be of interest to theologians and others seeking "a genuine postmodernism." Steve Schroeder
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- Professing in the Postmodern Academy: Faculty and the Future of Church-Related Colleges (Issues in Religion and Higher Education Series, 1) by Stephen R. Haynes on 4 pages
- Called to Teach: The Vocation of the Presbyterian Educator by Duncan S. Ferguson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- People of Faith: Religious Conviction in American Journalism and Higher Education by John Schmalzbauer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- 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 page 38, page 76, and page 189
- Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover Its Moral Vision by David F. Wells in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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