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" The future of Baptist higher education / "
Donald D. Schmeltekopf and Dianna M. Vitanza, editors.
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1033561
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b787931
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The future of Baptist higher education /\ Donald D. Schmeltekopf and Dianna M. Vitanza, editors.
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Waco, Tex. :: Baylor University Press,, ©2006.
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1 online resource (x, 274 pages) :: illustrations
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1280705191
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1932792279
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9781932792270
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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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 imper.
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Baptist universities and colleges-- United States.
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Baptist universities and colleges.
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Baptisten
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College
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EDUCATION-- Higher.
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Universität.
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United States.
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USA.
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378/.071673
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LC562.F87 2006eb
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Schmeltekopf, Donald D.
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Vitanza, Dianna M.
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