The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Ancient-Future)

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Introduction : the Christian colleges and American intellectual traditions / Mark A. Noll -- The colonial period. The pervading Christian purpose of colonial education -- Instructors and the instruction -- Students and student life -- The old-time college. The expansion of Christian higher education -- The continuing mission -- A college education -- The extracurriculum -- The state university as a Protestant college -- New colleges and new programs. Higher education for Blacks -- Colleges for women -- Colleges founded by the newly rich and the new immigrants -- The new curriculum and its effects -- Athletics and fraternities -- The movement toward secularization. Sources of secularization -- Marks of secularization -- The process of secularization : the universities -- The process of secularization : the church colleges -- Varieties of Protestant higher education by 1980 -- The response to secularization. The YMCA and other student Christian organizations -- The Bible college movement -- Fundamentalism and higher education -- The reconstruction of Christian higher education after 1945. The emerging line-up of the continuing Christian college -- The emerging identity of the continuing Christian college -- In partnership with the government -- On to the twenty-first century. The recovery continues -- New constituencies and extended borders -- Enlarging the faith and learning dialogue -- The mainline reassesses -- The external governors -- Epilogue.