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Engaging the culture, changing the world : the Christian university in a post-Christian world / Philip W. Eaton. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, (c)2011.Description: 206 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780830839292
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BT738.E14.E543 2011
  • BT738
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Contents:
The stories we tell : the American university in crisis -- Negotiating a world of colliding maps -- what happens when we simply don't know what to say? -- Campus life without a guiding story -- The red t-shirt and the dinner-table drama -- The presumption of unbelief and the consequences -- A world without Easter -- Something we've never seen before -- The city and that every-elusive certainty -- Shattering fixed conclusions : the power of the imagination -- The gospel and cultural engagement -- Paul's explosive vision -- Restoring communities of trust -- Embracing the Christian story -- Modeling vibrant Christian community -- An alternative history, an alternative university -- A story of human flourishing and the work of the university.
Subject: Going against the mainstream of Christian higher education, Eaton envisions a place that considers engagement and interaction with culture to be a positive priority. Going against the mainstream of secular higher education, Eaton envisions a place where the grand narrative of the Christian gospel is affirmed as a life-giving response to the critical issues of our day.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION BT738.17.E28 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001793021

Engaging the culture, changing the world -- The stories we tell : the American university in crisis -- Negotiating a world of colliding maps -- what happens when we simply don't know what to say? -- Campus life without a guiding story -- The red t-shirt and the dinner-table drama -- The presumption of unbelief and the consequences -- A world without Easter -- Something we've never seen before -- The city and that every-elusive certainty -- Shattering fixed conclusions : the power of the imagination -- The gospel and cultural engagement -- Paul's explosive vision -- Restoring communities of trust -- Embracing the Christian story -- Modeling vibrant Christian community -- An alternative history, an alternative university -- A story of human flourishing and the work of the university.

Going against the mainstream of Christian higher education, Eaton envisions a place that considers engagement and interaction with culture to be a positive priority. Going against the mainstream of secular higher education, Eaton envisions a place where the grand narrative of the Christian gospel is affirmed as a life-giving response to the critical issues of our day.

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