More than a decade ago, Fr. James Tunstead Burtchaell’s The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of College and Universities from Their Christian Churches created a stir in higher education. Burtchaell argued that historically religious colleges in the United States had gradually weakened their denominational ties and abandoned any meaningful religious identity and mission. (...)
November 30, 1999
Books
Stranger in a Strange Land
Seeing the LightReligious Colleges in the Twenty-First CenturySamuel SchumanJohns Hopkins University Press, $50, 336 pp.
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