Richard T. Hughes is Distinguished Professor of Religion and Director of the Sider Institute for Anabaptist, Pietist, and Wesleyan Studies at Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania. His other books include Myths America Lives By and Christian America and the Kingdom of God.
--Journal of Church and State
"A valuable contribution to a growing national conversation about
the nature of, and prospects for, Christian higher education in the
United States." Mark A. Noll
--Wheaton College
"Hughes and Adrian have enlisted a stellar crew for a worthy task.
The effort to say what difference it makes to carry out higher
education within a specific Christian tradition yields sometimes
surprising results. As these essays show, there are many and varied
ways of promoting learning that is both recognizably Christian and
meaningfully academic. . . . As a collection presenting different
strategies in different contexts pointing toward different goals,
this is a very stimulating book indeed." George M. Marsden
--University of Notre Dame
"This is an important study for anyone interested in the future of
church-related colleges. It is especially helpful in showing how
schools from various denominational traditions have preserved their
Christian identities in varieties of ways." Shirley H Showalter
--Goshen College
"This exciting book brings together disciplines that have too long
been separated from each other -- American religious history,
higher education history, philosophy, and theology. . . . Reading
this book with Mark Twain's rueful sensibility, one could say that
the death of the Christian college has been greatly exaggerated.
What we find in these pages is a depth of passion and commitment
unmatched in all of American higher education -- and signs that
point to a lively future."
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