Educating for Shalom: Essays on Christian Higher EducationIn addition to his notable work as a premier Christian philosopher, Nicholas Wolterstorff has become a leading voice on faith-based higher education. This volume gathers the best of Wolterstorff's essays from the past twenty-five years dealing collectively with the purpose of Christian higher education and the nature of academic learning. Integrated throughout by the biblical idea of shalom, these nineteen essays present a robust framework for thinking about education that combines a Reformed confessional perspective with a radical social conscience and an increasingly progressivist pedagogy. Wolterstorff develops his ideas in relation to an astonishing variety of thinkers ranging from Calvin, Kuyper, and Jellema to Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant to Weber, Habermas, and MacIntyre. In the process, he critiques various models of education, classic foundationalism, modernization theory, liberal arts, and academic freedom. |
Contents
Rethinking Christian Higher Education | 3 |
On the Goal of Christian Collegiate Education | 10 |
The Mission of the Christian College at the End of the Twentieth Century | 27 |
The Integration of Faith and Learning The Very Idea | 36 |
On the Idea of a Penological Model of the Person That Is Biblically Faithful | 46 |
The Point of Connection between Faith and Learning | 64 |
The World for Which We Educate | 87 |
A Case for Disinterested Learning | 100 |
Abraham Kuyper on Christian Learning | 199 |
Bias or Access? | 226 |
Academic Freedom in Religiously Based Colleges and Universities | 241 |
Christian Learning In and For a Pluralist Society | 254 |
Should the Work of Our Hands Have Standing in the Christian College? | 264 |
What Is the Reformed Perspective on Christian Higher Education? | 276 |
A Response to Fides et Ratio | 288 |
Afterword | 295 |
The Project of a Christian University in a Postmodern Culture | 109 |
On Shaping How Students Are Disposed to Act | 135 |
The Story of Two Decades of Thinking about Christian Higher Education | 155 |
Can Scholarship and Christian Conviction Mix? Another Look at the Integration of Faith and Learning | 172 |
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