Faith and Knowledge: Mainline Protestantism and American Higher Education - Softcover

Sloan, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664228666 ISBN 13: 9780664228668

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994

Synopsis

In this book, Douglas Sloan explores the impact that the Protestant theological renaissance had on American colleges and universities. In particular, Sloan focuses on the church's most significant claim to have a continuing voice in higher education: its particular ability to demonstrate a connection between faith and the dominant modern conceptions of knowledge. Sloan looks at the ways the mainline Protestant churches did, and did not, deal effectively with this faith-knowledge situation and the subsequent cessation of the church's large-scale engagement with American higher education.

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Review:

Faith and Knowledge: Mainline Protestantism and American Higher Education, by Douglas Sloan, analyzes a brief renaissance in American Protestant theology from 1925 to 1960. The best parts of Faith and Knowledge describe how Reinhold Niebuhr, H. Richard Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich gained wide influence in mainstream academia with their groundbreaking new theologies. Sloan's history is written primarily for Christians who want to do faith-based scholarship today, yet this contemporary concern remains appropriately understated for most of the book. As a result, Faith and Knowledge is a valuable contribution to the field of history and to the Christian faith. --Michael Joseph Gross

About the Author:

Douglas Sloan is Professor Emeritus of History and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City. His published works include The Scottish Enlightenment and the American College Ideal and Faith and Knowledge: Mainline Protestantism and American Higher Education.

About this edition

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0664228666
• ISBN 13: 9780664228668
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272