The Future of Baptist Higher Education

Preface

Introduction

1. Baptist Identity and Christian Higher Education, Donald D. Schmeltekopf and Dianna M. Vitanza

Part One: Four Models for Baptist Higher Education

2. Integrating Faith and Learning in an Ecumenical Context, David P. Gushee

3. Building on a Shared Identity within a Shared History, William E. Hull

4. Fostering Dissent in the Postmodern Academy, Bill J. Leonard

5. Blending Baptist with Orthodox in the Christian University, David S. Dockery

Part Two: Faculty and Students and Baptist Higher Education

6. Who Will Our Students Be in a Postmodern, Postdenominational, and Materialistic Age? Richard Franklin

7. Religious Identity, Academic Reputation, and Attracting the Best Faculty and Students, Larry Lyon

Part Three: Baptist Higher Education and Its Constituencies

8. Is Higher Education a Justifi able Mission of Baptist Churches and Baptist Bodies? James C. Denison

9. Can Baptist Institutions of Higher Education Meet the Needs of Increasingly Diverse Constituencies? Albert Reyes

10. Can Baptist Institutions of Higher Education Meet the Needs of Youth in a Post-9/11 World? Denton Lotz

11. To Whom Are Baptist Colleges and Universities Accountable?

-- Response 1: Daniel Vestal

-- Response 2: R. Kirby Godsey

12. The University, the Church, and the Culture, Thomas E. Corts

Part Four: Conclusion

13. The Future of Baptist Higher Education: Secular or Religious? Martin E. Marty

14. Can the Secular Be Sanctified? Curtis W. Freeman

Notes

Contributors