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Christian Higher Education in Canada
eBook - Challenges and Opportunities, McMaster General Studies Series
ISBN/EAN: 9781725282810
Umbreit-Nr.: 2293593
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 348 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 17.11.2020
Auflage: 1/2020
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- The Toronto 2018 Symposium on Christian Higher Education provided an opportunity for leaders in the Canadian Christian higher education movement to reflect deeply on its development, current reality, and future possibilities. The Canadian Christian higher education scene comprises a wide range of institutions, including Christian universities, Bible colleges, and seminaries and graduate schools. Each type has its own distinctive history and likewise represents both challenges and opportunities. Even though they are intertwined in their common purpose, these higher educational institutions express this purpose in various ways. This volume is a collection of the papers and plenary talks designed to share the content of the symposium with a wider audience. The papers are all written by active scholars and researchers who are connected to the member institutions of Christian Higher Education Canada (CHEC). They not only illustrate the quality of the scholarship at these institutions, but they make their own critical contribution to an ongoing discussion regarding the role and place of Christian higher education within the wider society. This volume is intended to be helpful to students, faculty, staff, board members, and supporters of Canadian and other Christian higher education institutions, as well as interested individuals and scholars.
- Kurztext
- Ever bought that one book that utterly changed your spiritual life, made it deeper, quicker, and 23% more efficient? Neither has anyone else, but that has not stopped the relentless manufacture of fad products and programs that promise a &quote;better way.&quote; Fads, which have led to havoc in the wider culture, have also found their way into Christendom. Now we have specifically Christian examples of invented problems, with churches struggling over musical choices, carpet colors, and various techniques. Christians are frequently following the world, blissfully unaware in their thinking that &quote;the new thing&quote; must be better merely because it is new. 23% More Spiritual! examines some of the most well-known fads of the past century, provides a history of how we got here, outlines the problems in pursuing &quote;the fad,&quote; and offers a solution, one seeking goodness and perfection.
- Autorenportrait
- Stanley E. Porter is President and Dean, Professor of New Testament, and Roy A. Hope Chair in Christian Worldview at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of nearly thirty monographs and editor of over ninety volumes. One of his latest books is<i>When Paul Met Jesus: How an Idea Got Lost in History</i>. Porter is a former chair of the board of Christian Higher Education Canada (CHEC).<br><br><br><br> Bruce G. Fawcett is President, Vice-chancellor, and Professor of Leadership and Religious Studies at Crandall University, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. He previously was Academic Dean at Acadia Divinity College, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, and has served as a visiting instructor at colleges and seminaries across the globe. Fawcett is a former chair of the board of Christian Higher Education Canada (CHEC).<br>