Religious ideas for secular universities
By: C. John Sommerville
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780802864420
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. The Crisis of the Secular University :; title: 1. Secularist education becomes problematic; title: 2. Secularization creates the corporate university; title: 3. Defining religious and secular arguments; title: 4. Why Christianity and secularization need each other; title: 5. Scholars recover the human difference; title: II. Judging Religions, and Especially Christianity :; title: 6. How we judge religions; title: 7. How does Christianity come out?; title: 8. Theocracy versus Christianity; title: III. Scholars Assess the Western Bible :; title: 9. How the Bible works : narrative theory; title: 10. How the Bible was chosen and what makes it one book; title: IV. The University and the Culture Wars :; title: 11. A brief history of our culture wars; title: 12. The child as secular icon; title: 13. News as culture substitute; title: 14. Spirituality and decadence