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Title:

The Christian college phenomenon : inside America's fastest growing institutions of higher learning / Samuel Joeckel and Thomas Chesnes, editors.

Publisher:

Abilene Christian University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

399 p. : ill ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Christian universities and colleges--United States.
Higher education and state--United States.
Christian college students--Religious life--United States.
College students--Religious life--United States.
College students--Conduct of life.

Other Authors:

Joeckel, Samuel.
Chesnes, Thomas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

A slippery slope to secularization? : the worthwhile risk of Christian higher education / Samuel Joeckel and Thomas Chesnes -- Christian scholarship : opportunities, realities, and challenges / Susan VanZanten -- A coda on faith, learning, and scholarly rigor / David L. Weeks and Donald G. Isaak -- Thick ecumenism : the possibility of enlarging our circles at Christian colleges and universities / Phillip Irving Mitchell -- Faith and campus culture : are faculty and students on the same page? / Carol Woodfin -- Faith and campus culture : living and learning in the questions / Wayne Barnard -- In loco parentis : strengths, weaknesses, and future directions / C. Eric Jones and April L. Cunion -- In loco parentis : an evolving concept / Edee M. Schulze and Paul Blezien -- In loco parentis from a student and faculty perspective / Allison Sanders and Samuel Joeckel -- The hesitants among us : (AF) (H) (T) and the tightrope act of Christian scholarship / Joe Ricke -- Fear not : security, risk, and academic freedom / Dan Russ -- What is freedom for? : rhetoric and reality at Christian colleges / David Hoekema -- Race and ethnicity in CCCU schools : rhetoric and reality / Alvaro Nieves -- Understanding CCCU faculty of color / Jenell Williams Paris and Michelle Knights -- Biblical multiculturalism : moving forward in deed and truth / Terriel Byrd and Olga Rybalkina -- Finding a home in academia : gender equity at CCCU institutions / M. Elizabeth Hall -- We're doomed : why Christian colleges and universities must lead on the issue of gender equity and why they don't / Bettina Tate Pederson and Allyson Jule -- Holding on to the traditions of men : Christianity, gender, and the academy / Jennifer McKinney -- Deconstructing the second pillar of antievolutionism in Christian higher education / Thomas Chesnes -- Inherited beliefs and evolved brains : a CCCU challenge / Howard Van Till -- Evolution and Christian faith / Richard G. Colling.

ISBN:

0891122842 (pbk.)
9780891122845 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)721886433

LCCN:

2011023411

Locations:

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)