Echoes of Insight
Past Perspectives and the Future of Christian Higher Education
Published on 10. February 2017
217 pages
978-0-89112-617-1 (ISBN)
Description
Christian higher education needs something richer and deeper.Faith-based institutions yearn for more than business as usual, and Echoes of Insight invites you to listen again to older, forgotten, and perhaps even ignored voices. Designed to stimulate conversation among colleagues, Echoes of Insight offers brief summaries of several thought-provoking writers from the last century and encourages a new, vigorous conversation about Christian higher education.Alfred North WhiteheadJohn Henry NewmanDorothy SayersAbraham FlexnerHannah ArendtThorstein VeblenFlannery O'ConnorJose Ortega y GassetMaria MontessoriRobert Maynard HutchinsKarl Jaspers
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Echoes of Insight
Past Perspectives and the Future of Christian Higher Education
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Abilene Christian University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1: The Classroom and the Student: Instruction, Formation, and Vocation
- Chapter 1: Alfred North Whitehead-The Aims of Education (1929)
- Chapter 2: Dorothy L. Sayers-The Lost Tools of Learning (1947)
- Chapter 3: Hannah Arendt-The Banality of Evil (1963)
- Chapter 4: Flannery O'Connor-A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955)
- Chapter 5: Maria Montessori-The Montessori Method (1912)
- Part 2: The Faculty and the Administration: Mission, Vision, and Values
- Chapter 6: John Henry Newman-The Rise and Progress of Universities (1872)
- Chapter 7: Abraham Flexner-The American College (1908)
- Chapter 8: Thorstein Veblen-The Higher Learning in America (1918)
- Chapter 9: José Ortega y Gasset-The Mission of the University (1930)
- Chapter 10: Robert Maynard Hutchins-The Higher Learning in America (1936)
- Chapter 11: Karl Jaspers-The Idea of the University (1946)
- Conclusion
