A theology of higher education / Mike Higton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Higton, Mike.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Religion.

Universities and colleges.

Learning and scholarship--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Learning and scholarship.

Physical Description:

viii, 284 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

In this book, Mike Higton provides a constructive critique of Higher Education policy and practice in the UK, the US and beyond, from the standpoint of Christian theology. He focuses on the role universities can and should play in forming students and staff in intellectual virtue, in sustaining vibrant communities of inquiry, and in serving the public good. He argues both that modern secular universities can be a proper context for Christians to pursue their calling as disciples to learn and to teach, and that Christians can contribute to the flourishing of such universities as institutions devoted to learning for the common good. In the process he sets out a vision of the good university as secular and religiously plural, as socially inclusive, and as deeply and productively entangled with the surrounding society. Along the way, he engages with a range of historical examples (the medieval University of Paris, the University of Berlin in the nineteenth century, and John Henry Newman's work in Oxford and Dublin) and with a range of contemporary writers on Higher Education from George Marsden to Stanley Hauerwas and from David Ford to Rowan Williams.

Contents:

Paris

Berlin

Oxford and Dublin

Contemporary theological voices

An Anglican theology of learning

The virtuous university

The sociable university

The good university

The negotiable university.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-276) and index.

ISBN:

9780199643929

019964392X

OCLC:

742512030