The idea of a Christian university
Subtitle: essays in theology and higher education
By: edited by Jeff Astley, Leslie J. Francis, John Sullivan, Andrew Walker.
Contributors: Astley, Jeff.; Francis, Leslie J.; Sullivan, John, 1949-; Walker, Andrew, 1945-
Publisher: Paternoster
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Milton Keynes, Bucks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781842272602
Subjects: Church and college.; Universities and colleges -- Religion.; Hoger onderwijs.; Christendom.; Theologie.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part One: A Christian calling?; title: The idea of a Christian university / Ian S. Markham; title: University, Christian faith and the church / John Sullivan; title: Objections to the idea of a Christian university / Elmer John Thiessen; title: A Christian university imagined: recovering paideia in a broken world / Andrew Walker and Andrew Wright; title: Sedes sapientiae: Newman, truth and the Christian university / Denis Robinson; title: Learning the truth in a Christian university: advice from Søren Kierkegaard / Murray A. Rae; title: The university without question: John Henry Newman and Jacques Derrida on faith in the university / Gerard Loughlin; title: Christian teaching, learning and love: education as Christian ministry and spiritual discipline / Jeff Astley; title: Expectations of the Christian campus: ordinary theology, empirical theology and student voices / Leslie J. Francis; title: Part Two: A Christian curriculum?; title: The curriculum of a Christian university / Adrian Thatcher; title: On theology's Babylonian captivity within the secular university / Gavin D'Costa; title: Philosophy and the idea of a Christian university / David Carr; title: Science in a Christian university / R. J. Berry; title: The idea of politics in a Christian university / Nicholas Rengger; title: Interdisciplinary perspectives within a Christian context / William K. Kay; title: Responsibility, vocation and critique: teacher education in a Christian context / John Sullivan; title: A worked example of the Christian agenda: the impact of a Christian ethos on the research and teaching of an australian educational faculty / Patricia Malone.