num_pages: 870
description: James Tunstead Burtchaell, who has extensive experience in American higher education as both a teacher and an administrator, provides case studies of seventeen prominent colleges and universities with diverse ecclesial origins - Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, and Evangelical. Using published and archival sources as well as firsthand interaction with each institution he covers, Burtchaell narrates how each school's religious identity eventually became first uncomfortable and then expendable, and he analyzes the processes that eroded the bonds between school and church.
language: English
title: The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches
titlecomplete: The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches
genres: History, Education, Religion, Church History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co