The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education: Forming Whole and Holy Persons
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (918 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0830840710 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Non-Pietists Review Michael Hansen This review is reposted here in it's entirety with permission from: []When I first set out to read The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education: Forming Whole and Holy Persons (henceforth The Pietist Vision) I had my apprehensions. To put it bluntly, I am not a fan of Pietism. But even as an “anti-Pietist” I enjoyed large sections of this book. You might be asking why I even wanted . "Testimony from a Bethel University graduate" according to JohannaOneVerse. This book offers me hope. I graduated from Bethel University in 2002 - the university from which many of the writers hail. For the past 5 - 10 years, I entertained serious doubts that I had chosen a career and family path that was commensurate with the education I received. Now I am beginning to understand that my major choices since graduating have been deeply influenced by that pietistic ethos wh. "a book deserved to be read by deans and professors, secular and sectarian." according to Joel L. Watts. Christian education, liberal arts, and the humanities are all considered, usually, a dead field. Indeed, the concept of a whole person, much less a holy person, does not fit into the spectrum of higher education any longer, finding a whole person replaced with a better cog. Yes, there are some higher education institutions practicing certain ideological viewpoints, such as the Reformed (as the edit
Key themes include holistic formation, humility and openmindedness, the love of neighbor, concern for the common good and spiritual maturity. Pietism sees the Christian college as a place that forms whole and holy persons. The irony is that Pietism from the beginning "was intimately bound up with education," according to Diarmaid MacCulloch. This is especially the case in the field of Christian higher education, which is dominated by thinkers in the Reformed tradition and complicated by the association of Pietism with anti-intellectualism. Pietism has long been ignored in evangelical scholarship. In this groundbreaking volume edited by Christopher Gehrz, scholars associated with the Pietist tradition reflect on the Pietist approach to education. But until now there has not been a single work dedicated to exploring a distinctively Pietist vision for higher education
Schmalzbauer, Blanche Gorman Strong Chair in Protestant Studies, Missouri State University)"I have been reading Chris Gehrz's blog 'The Pietist Schoolman' for several years and have been cheering him on as he makes a compelling and humble case for the compatibility of Pietism, the intellectual life and Christian higher education. Editor Christopher Gehrz and colleagues articulate what Douglas and Rhonda Jacobsen have shown before: that the widely celebrated 'integration of faith and learning' concept is not the only viable model for explaining the mission of the Christian academy." (William Ringenberg, H-Ne
Christopher Gehrz (PhD, Yale) is professor of history and chair of the history department at Bethel University in St. . He is the coeditor of The Pietist Impulse in Christianity. He also helps coordinate the Christianity and Western Culture program and contributes to the program's podcast. Paul, Minnesota