Re Imagining Christian Higher Education

Author : Laurie Schreiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351206211

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Re-Imagining Christian Higher Education by Laurie Schreiner Pdf

Re-Imagining Christian Higher Education takes a fresh and critical look at the challenges facing Christian colleges and universities and provides concrete recommendations for university leaders, faculty, and staff to implement in their daily work. Chapters in this book address leadership and diversity challenges, issues of affordability and sustainability, and ways of maintaining the distinguishing features of a Christ-centered liberal arts education. A vivid and compelling picture of the Christian university of the future is painted by these authors as they highlight the importance of embracing our Christian identity while being willing to engage a pluralistic and fragmented world. Firmly rooted in a missional identity of faithful learning that is committed to the intellectual, personal, and spiritual development of our students, Christian colleges and universities are encouraged to reclaim and revitalize the breadth and depth of the Christian tradition in order to move forward. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Christian Higher Education.

Author : Johannes M. Luetz,Tony Dowden,Beverley Norsworthy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789811308512

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Reimagining Christian Education by Johannes M. Luetz,Tony Dowden,Beverley Norsworthy Pdf

This book is an arresting interdisciplinary publication on Christian education, comprising works by leading scholars, professionals and practitioners from around the globe. It focuses on the integrated approaches to Christian education that are both theoretically sound and practically beneficial, and identifies innovative pedagogical methods and tools that have been field-tested and practice-approved. It discusses topics such as exploring programmes and courses through different lenses; learning challenges and opportunities within organisational management; theology of business; Christian models of teaching in different contexts; job preparedness; developing different interpretive or meaning-making frameworks for working with social justice, people with disability, non-profit community organisations and in developing country contexts. It offers graduate students, teachers, school administrators, organisational leaders, theologians, researchers and education practitioners a fresh and inspiring reimagining of Christian education perspectives and practices and the ramifications of their application to life-long learning.

Author : Andrew B. Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0957496214

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Re-Imagining Christian Education for the Twenty-First Century by Andrew B. Morris Pdf

Author : Perry L. Glanzer,Nathan F. Alleman,Todd C. Ream
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780830891634

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Restoring the Soul of the University by Perry L. Glanzer,Nathan F. Alleman,Todd C. Ream Pdf

Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Politics/Public Life Has the American university gained the whole world but lost its soul? In terms of money, prestige, power, and freedom, American universities appear to have gained the academic world. But at what cost? We live in the age of the fragmented multiversity that has no unifying soul or mission. The multiversity in a post-Christian culture is characterized instead by curricular division, the professionalization of the disciplines, the expansion of administration, the loss of community, and the idolization of athletics. The situation is not hopeless. According to Perry L. Glanzer, Nathan F. Alleman, and Todd C. Ream, Christian universities can recover their soul—but to do so will require reimagining excellence in a time of exile, placing the liberating arts before the liberal arts, and focusing on the worship, love, and knowledge of God as central to the university. Restoring the Soul of the University is a pioneering work that charts the history of the university and casts an inspiring vision for the future of higher education.

Author : Brian Jensen,Sarah Visser
Publisher : ACU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Christian college students
ISBN : 1684262801

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Reimagining the Student Experience by Brian Jensen,Sarah Visser Pdf

Understand the times. Respond faithfully. Higher education stands at a crossroads. However, there is a way forward that recognizes our current realities while also embracing the possibilities of what higher education could and should be. In this volume, Jensen and Visser have brought together a collaboration of diverse voices from among those devoted to the endeavor of Christian higher education"€"voices that enrich the conversation surrounding the lives of current and future students. Offering a professional, robust vision of human flourishing, Reimagining the Student Experience invites educators, administrators, chaplains, and university professionals to think deeply and faithfully about their journey with students, from their arrival on campus to their pursuit of faithful living. Foreword by David S. Guthrie

Author : David I. Smith,Susan M. Felch
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467444101

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Teaching and Christian Imagination by David I. Smith,Susan M. Felch Pdf

This book offers an energizing Christian vision for the art of teaching. The authors — experienced teachers themselves — encourage teacher-readers to reanimate their work by imagining it differently. David Smith and Susan Felch, along with Barbara Carvill, Kurt Schaefer, Timothy Steele, and John Witvliet, creatively use three metaphors — journeys and pilgrimages, gardens and wilderness, buildings and walls — to illuminate a fresh vision of teaching and learning. Stretching beyond familiar clichés, they infuse these metaphors with rich biblical echoes and theological resonances that will inform and inspire Christian teachers everywhere.

Author : Gregg A. Okesson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610977418

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Re-Imaging Modernity by Gregg A. Okesson Pdf

This is a book about Christianity in one particular region in Kenya. It walks into churches, listens to sermons, dances to music, and interviews the people sitting in the pews, all with the aim of understanding how spiritual power enables these churches to function as agents within their contemporary society. Ecclesiastical communities in Africa draw upon divine power in order to engage in modernity-related topics. Humans are not unresponsive to global flows of meaning; they are integrative agents who fashion their world by living in it. The kind of modernity arising from these churches does not blindly follow Western forms, but flows from its own internal logic in which spiritual power occupies central hermeneutical function. Theological resources contribute to the formation of sociological expressions. Divine power pertains directly to human constructs, which then allows the churches to actively "image" God for the development of unique forms of modernity arising on the continent.

Author : Jens Zimmermann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191084454

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Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism by Jens Zimmermann Pdf

Since the early 1980s, there has been renewed scholarly interest in the concept of Christian Humanism. A number of official Catholic documents have stressed the importance of 'Christian humanism', as a vehicle of Christian social teaching and, indeed, as a Christian philosophy of culture. Fundamentally, humanism aims to explore what it means to be human and what the grounds are for human flourishing. Featuring contributions from internationally renowned Christian authors from a variety of disciplines in the humanities, Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism recovers a Christian humanist ethos for our time. The volume offers a chronological overview (from patristic humanism to the Reformation and beyond) and individual examples (Jewell, Calvin) of past Christian humanisms. The chapters are connected through the theme of Christian paideia as the foundation for liberal arts education.

Author : Allen Paul Weaver, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 098405135X

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Re-Imagining Christian Education Within the Church by Allen Paul Weaver, Jr. Pdf

Author : International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures. Congress
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042016378

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Re-imagining Language and Literature for the 21st Century by International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures. Congress Pdf

In 28 essays selected from the proceedings of the XXII International Congress of FILLM held at Assumption University, Bangkok, scholars and teachers of languages and literatures have noted, bemoaned and analyzed the waning influence of the humanities to varying degrees. They have raised questions, offered solutions and vigorously defended their languages and literatures, often in no uncertain terms - not as a politically correct thing to do, but as a human obligation. The papers presented here are true to the spirit of the Congress from the moment of the keynote address to what followed in a spontaneous outbreak of voices from scholars of more than 70 universities throughout the world. For the first time, in an international congress, scholars have described with great sensitivity many languages and literatures often considered the periphery, in a sincere attempt to understand 'the other', thus making a passionate plea for inclusion in the umbrella of the world's languages and literatures. With contributions by keynote speaker and authority on Comparative Literature Gayatri Spivak, USA and plenary speakers Vridhagiri Ganeshan, India; Roger Sell, Finland; Antoine Compagnon, France; and Chetana Nagavajara, Thailand this volume is of immense interest to scholars and teachers of languages and literatures the world over.

Author : Willie James Jennings
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300163087

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The Christian Imagination by Willie James Jennings Pdf

Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging work, Willie James Jennings delves deep into the late medieval soil in which the modern Christian imagination grew, to reveal how Christianity's highly refined process of socialization has inadvertently created and maintained segregated societies. A probing study of the cultural fragmentation-social, spatial, and racial-that took root in the Western mind, this book shows how Christianity has consistently forged Christian nations rather than encouraging genuine communion between disparate groups and individuals. Weaving together the stories of Zurara, the royal chronicler of Prince Henry, the Jesuit theologian Jose de Acosta, the famed Anglican Bishop John William Colenso, and the former slave writer Olaudah Equiano, Jennings narrates a tale of loss, forgetfulness, and missed opportunities for the transformation of Christian communities. Touching on issues of slavery, geography, Native American history, Jewish-Christian relations, literacy, and translation, he brilliantly exposes how the loss of land and the supersessionist ideas behind the Christian missionary movement are both deeply implicated in the invention of race. Using his bold, creative, and courageous critique to imagine a truly cosmopolitan citizenship that transcends geopolitical, nationalist, ethnic, and racial boundaries, Jennings charts, with great vision, new ways of imagining ourselves, our communities, and the landscapes we inhabit.

Author : Todd C. Ream,Perry L. Glanzer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621899945

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The Idea of a Christian College by Todd C. Ream,Perry L. Glanzer Pdf

In 1975, Arthur F. Holmes published The Idea of a Christian College. At the time he could not have imagined his book would gather such a large following. This work's thoughtful yet accessible style made it a long-standing choice for reading lists on Christian college and university campuses across the country and around the world. Countless numbers of first-year students have read and discussed his book as part of their introduction to the Christian college experience. However, enough has changed since 1975 in both the Church and Academy to now merit a full-scale reexamination. In this book, Todd C. Ream and Perry L. Glanzer account for changes in how people view the Church and themselves as human agents, and propose a vision for the Christian college in light of the fact that so many Christian colleges now look and act more like research universities. Including topics such as the co-curricular, common worship, and diversity, Ream and Glanzer craft a vision that strives to see into the future by drawing on the riches of the past. First-year students as well as new faculty members and administrators will benefit from the insights in this book in ways previous generations benefitted from Arthur Holmes's efforts.

Author : Peter Tze Ming Ng,Wing Tai Leung,Vaughan King Tong Mak
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527520813

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Christian Mind in the Emerging World by Peter Tze Ming Ng,Wing Tai Leung,Vaughan King Tong Mak Pdf

In response to challenges from the emerging world, this book brings together essays that discuss and exemplify various related approaches to academic faith integration and explore how Christian faith should underpin, scaffold, and frame our understanding of academic disciplines, leading to practical implications for work or action in modern society and culture. Written by Christian scholars and practitioners from diverse backgrounds including the USA, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, and the Philippines, the contributions here all contribute a global perspective while addressing some specific issue or case in the context of Asia. They represent ingenious endeavors that illustrate the workings of a faith-integrated approach in domains as wide as higher education, business, science, psychology and counseling, politics, environment, media, social services, leadership, research, and technology. This volume will inform and inspire the reader into cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary studies particularly of religion, education, culture, society, and worldview.

Author : Peter Tze Ming Ng,Leping Mou,Ruth Hayhoe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789819900671

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Liberal Arts and the Legacy of China’s Christian Universities by Peter Tze Ming Ng,Leping Mou,Ruth Hayhoe Pdf

This book brings together English translations of thirteen research papers published in recent years by Chinese historians, sociologists, and educators. These papers investigate various dimensions of the legacy of China’s historic The Christian Universities which continues to inspire higher education reform in China even in the twenty-first century. This book focuses on Christian Universities, which fostered a particularly notable Liberal Arts Education in the Chinese context. Besides embracing some ideals in common with Liberal Arts Education developed in the West, their Liberal Arts Education curriculum had an emphasis on readings in the classics, history, philosophy, religion, ethics, and literature which conveyed traditional Chinese values. The Christian Universities also shared a strong commitment to moral formation, community service, and global citizenship education. This book emphasizes Liberal Arts Education that focused on the whole person, where academic knowledge, skills, and character were equally valued. The book presents distinctive characteristics of the study of Christian higher education in China and the interplay between globalization and localization.

Author : Robert J. Suderman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498290944

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Re-Imagining the Church by Robert J. Suderman Pdf

The church. What has it become? What was it meant to be? Does it pave the way or get in the way? Are we suspicious of the institutionalization of church bureaucracy? Or thrilled with the relevant impact of its presence? Robert J. Suderman writes about the church as a practitioner. His inspiration emerges out of the crossroads of biblical vision and human sincerity always tempered with frailty. Years of ministry, never a stranger to complexity, only serve to sharpen the vision of possibility. His imagination of what can be is never divorced from the realities of what is. He does not bow to the common assumption that "you can't get there from here." "Here" is the only possible point of origin for us. In his succinct, easy to understand writing style, Suderman provides insightful and thought-provoking perspectives to what it means to be the church. To be a people "called out" to participate together in God's activity in the world, and to create programs and structures needed for effective ministry are two sides of the same coin. This book is for dreamers and bureaucrats alike; indeed, it assumes that the two are indispensable pieces of God's coming presence. Introduction by: Tom Yoder Neufeld