Colleges and commitments.
By: Edited by Lloyd J. Averill and William W. Jellema.
Contributors: Jellema, William W., joint comp.
Publisher: Westminster Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Education -- Philosophy.; Church and education.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The nature and legitimacy of commitments. Objectivity vs. commitment, by H. Smith. Institutional commitment: a social scientist's view, by H. R. Davis. The sectarian nature of liberal education, by L. J. Averill. The identity of the Christian college, by W. W. Jellema.; title: Commitments and the dimensions of learning. Discursive truth and evangelical truth, by A. C. Outler. Natural order and transcendent order, by W. G. Pollard. Limited cognition and ultimate cognition, by R. W. Friedrichs. Academic teaching and human  experience, by M. Novak. Academic excellence and moral value, by W. W. Jellema.; title: Norms and models of commitment. Biblical realism as a norm, by W. Herberg. Christian ethical community as a norm, by W. Beach. A pluralistic model, by W. B. Martin. A singular model, by L. J. Averill.