Educating for Shalom: Essays on Christian Higher Education
In 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...
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In 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.
PrefaceIntroductionRethinking Christian Higher Education3Teaching for Shalom: On the Goal of Christian Collegiate Education10The Mission of the Christian College at the End of the Twentieth Century27The Integration of Faith and Learning - The Very Idea36On the Idea of a Psychological Model of the Person That Is Biblically Faithful46The Point of Connection between Faith and Learning64The World for Which We Educate87A Case for Disinterested Learning100The Project of a Christian University in a Postmodern Culture109Teaching for Justice: On Shaping How Students Are Disposed to Act135Autobiography: The Story of Two Decades of Thinking about Christian Higher Education155Can Scholarship and Christian Conviction Mix? Another Look at the Integration of Faith and Learning172Abraham Kuyper on Christian Learning199Particularist Perspectives: Bias or Access?226Academic Freedom in Religiously Based Colleges and Universities241Christian Learning In and For a Pluralist Society254Should the Work of Our Hands Have Standing in the Christian College?264What Is the Reformed Perspective on Christian Higher Education?276Call to Boldness: A Response to Fides et Ratio288Afterword295Bibliography300Index305
