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Douglas Sloan is Professor of History and Education Emeritus at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he has taught for more than thirty years. During this time, he was also Adjunct Professor of Religion and Education at Union Theological Seminary and the Jewish Theological Seminary, New mostra altro York, and Director of the Center for the Study of the Spiritual Foundations of Education at Teachers College. From 1992 until 2000, he was also Director of the Masters Program in Waldorf Education at Sunbridge College. His books include insight-imagination: The Emancipation of Thought and the Modern World and Faith and Knowledge: Mainstream Protestantism and American Higher Education. He and his wife Fern live near Harlemville, New York. mostra meno

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Absolutely eye opening. Sloan has a story to tell: the story of how an organized attempt to restore Christian faith to higher education (the toughest place to do so in Western culture)dating from the late 1930s finally failed by the middle 1960s. Not to be able to make a convincing difference within mainstream higher education is to be relegated to cultural vulnerability and marginalization. Sloan moves his story along briskly. Various campus groups have chaplains to believing Christian students -- Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox -- but perspectives from C, P, or O scholars are rarely taken seriously by professors. The reason is not all that professors are scoffers, contrary to what some might think. Sloan traces the failure of the effort to restore orthodox Trinitarian Christianity to intellectual respectability ultimately to a flawed theory of knowledge that accepted (positivist?) history's right to stand in judgment on scripture. I ate this book.… (altro)
 
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ted_newell | Jun 20, 2015 |

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14
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86
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2
ISBN
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