Professing in the Postmodern Academy
Faculty and the Future of Church-Related Colleges
Edited by Stephen R. Haynes
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Subjects: All Higher Education, All Religious Studies, All Theology |
Professing in the Postmodern Academy examines the landscape of religiously affiliated higher education in America from the perspective of faculty members critically committed to the future of church-related institutions. The book includes articles on a variety of topics from members of the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of Church-Related College, a project that has involved ninety church-related institutions since 1996.
Acknowledgement
Preface
Part One: Introduction
A Review of Research on Church-Related Higher Education
Stephen R. Haynes
Part Two: Postmodern Opportunity
The Habit of Empathy: Postmodernity and the Future of the Church-Related College
Paul Lakeland
Prolegomena to Any Postmodern Hope for the Church-Related College
Margaret Falls-Corbitt
A Sense of Place and the Place of Sense
William J. Cahoy
Part Three: Academic Vocation
Conversation and Authority: A Tension in the Inheritance of the Church-Related College
Richard Kyte
Beyond the Faith-Knowledge Dichotomy: Teaching As Vocation
Elizabeth Newman
The Erotic Imagination and the Catholic Academy
John Neary
Part Four: Pedagogy and Praxis
"Academic" vs. "Confessional" Study of the Bible in the Postmodern Classroom: A Response to Philip Davies and David Clines
Julia M. O'Brien
Teaching the Conflicts, For the Bible Tells Me So
Timothy K. Beal
A Pedagogy of Eucharistic Accompaniment
Dominic P. Scibilia
Part Five: Mission and Curriculum
One-Armed Embrace of Postmodernity: International Education and Church-Related Colleges
Keith Graber Miller
Religion and the Curriculum at Church-Related Colleges
Marcia Bunge
From the Ties that Bind to Way-Stations: The Dynamics of Religious Commitment among Students and Their Families
D. Jonathan Grieser and Corrie E. Norman
Afterword
A Typology of Church-Related Colleges and Universities
Stephen R. Haynes
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
"...introduces the reader to the wide range of literature on church-related education that has emerged over the past fifty years. Steve Haynes's 'Introduction' alone is worth the price of the book."
–Teaching Theology and Religion
"This is a volume that faculty at church-related colleges should read and discuss."
–Religious Studies Review
"Professing in the Postmodern Academy is an informative, thoughtful, question-raising study which is highly recommended reading—especially for all who attend or contribute to a religious college."
–Library Bookwatch
"Despite fears from some quarters, the end of the Enlightenment objectivity need not lead to relativism. Instead, as Professing in the Postmodern Academy so ably shows, it can result in an appreciation for the limitations of any single human perspective and a renewed appreciation for the Church."
–Perspectives in Religious Studies
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Other books by:
Stephen R. Haynes
Books in Series:
Studies in Religion and Higher Education
Doing More with Life - Connecting Christian Higher Education to a Call to Service
Professing in the Postmodern Academy - Faculty and the Future of Church-Related Colleges
The Schooled Heart - Moral Formation in American Higher Education
Teaching As Believing - Faith in the University
