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Scholarship March 29, 2017

Professing in the Postmodern Academy: Faculty and the Future of Church-Related Colleges

The Wabash Center

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Author
Haynes, Stephen R., ed.
Publisher
Baylor University Press, Waco, TX
ISBN
918954827
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface

Pt. 1 Introduction
A Review of Research on Church-Related Higher Education (Stephen R. Haynes)
Pt. 2 Postmodern Opportunity
The Habit of Empathy: Postmodernity and the Future of the Church-Related College (Paul Lakeland)
Prolegomena to Any Postmodern Hope for the Church-Related College (Margaret Falls-Corbitt)
A Sense of Place and the Place of Sense (William J. Cahoy)

Pt. 3 Academic Vocation
Conversation and Authority: A Tension in the Inheritance of the Church-Related College (Richard Kyte)
Beyond the Faith-Knowledge Dichotomy: Teaching As Vocation (Elizabeth Newman)
The Erotic Imagination and the Catholic Academy (John Neary)

Pt. 4 Pedagogy and Praxis
"Academic" vs. "Confessional" Study of the Bible in the Postmodern Classroom: A Response to Philip Davies and David Clines (Julia M. O'Brien)
Teaching the Conflicts, For the Bible Tells Me So (Timothy K. Beal)
A Pedagogy of Eucharistic Accompaniment (Dominic P. Scibilia)

Pt. 5 Mission and Curriculum
One-Armed Embrace of Postmodernity: International Education and Church-Related Colleges (Ketih Graber Miller)
Religion and the Curriculum at Church-Related Colleges (Marcia Bunge)
From the Ties that Bind to Way-Stations: The Dynamics of Religious Commitment among Students and Their Families (D. Jonathan Grieser, and Corrie E. Norman)
Afterword: A Typology of Church-Related Colleges and Universities (Stephen R. Haynes)

Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
This work examines the landscape of religiously affiliated higher education in America from the perspective of faculty members critically committed to the future of church-related institutions. The book includes articles on a variety of topics from members of the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of the Church-Related College, a project that has involved ninety church-related institutions since 1996. (From the Publisher)