Christian College, The: A History of Protestant Higher Education in America

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When it first appeared in 1984 The Christian College was the first modern comprehensive history of Protestant higher education in America. Now this second edition updates the history, featuring a new chapter on the developments of the past two decades, a major introduction by Mark Noll, a new preface and epilogue, and a series of instructive appendixes.
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When it first appeared in 1984 The Christian College was the first modern comprehensive history of Protestant higher education in America. Now this second edition updates the history, featuring a new chapter on the developments of the past two decades, a major introduction by Mark Noll, a new preface and epilogue, and a series of instructive appendixes.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780801031458
  • Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 4/1/2006
  • Series: RenewedMinds
  • Edition description: 2ND
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 316
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.67 (d)

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William C. Ringenberg (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is department chair and professor of history at Taylor University. He has focused on American religious history and has written a number of scholarly books, reviews, and journal articles dealing with Christian higher education.
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Table of Contents

Introduction : the Christian colleges and American intellectual traditions 17
1 The colonial period 37
2 The old-time college 57
3 New colleges and new programs 85
4 The movement toward secularization 113
5 The response to secularization 145
6 The reconstruction of Christian higher education after 1945 183
7 On to the twenty-first century 209
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