Preface Introduction 1. Baptist Identity and Christian Higher Education, Donald D. Schmeltekopf and Dianna M. Vitanza Part One: Four Models for Baptist Higher Education 2. Integrating Faith and Learning in an Ecumenical Context, David P. Gushee 3. Building on a Shared Identity within a Shared History, William E. Hull 4. Fostering Dissent in the Postmodern Academy, Bill J. Leonard 5. Blending Baptist with Orthodox in the Christian University, David S. Dockery Part Two: Faculty and Students and Baptist Higher Education 6. Who Will Our Students Be in a Postmodern, Postdenominational, and Materialistic Age? Richard Franklin 7. Religious Identity, Academic Reputation, and Attracting the Best Faculty and Students, Larry Lyon Part Three: Baptist Higher Education and Its Constituencies 8. Is Higher Education a Justifi able Mission of Baptist Churches and Baptist Bodies? James C. Denison 9. Can Baptist Institutions of Higher Education Meet the Needs of Increasingly Diverse Constituencies? Albert Reyes 10. Can Baptist Institutions of Higher Education Meet the Needs of Youth in a Post-9/11 World? Denton Lotz 11. To Whom Are Baptist Colleges and Universities Accountable? -- Response 1: Daniel Vestal -- Response 2: R. Kirby Godsey 12. The University, the Church, and the Culture, Thomas E. Corts Part Four: Conclusion 13. The Future of Baptist Higher Education: Secular or Religious? Martin E. Marty 14. Can the Secular Be Sanctified? Curtis W. Freeman Notes Contributors
The Future of Baptist Higher Education investigates four key issues that inform Baptist efforts at higher education -- the denominational conflict that has afflicted Baptists since the 1980s, the secularization of higher education in America, the dominance of the market-driven tendencies in American higher education today, and the meaning of Christian higher education, but more specifically, the meaning of Baptist higher education. This volume clearly illustrates that the meaning of Baptist and Christian higher education, as with the Christian life itself, is far more complex than any one imperial interpretation.
Donald D. Schmeltekopf is Provost Emeritus and Hazel and Harry Chavanne Professor of Christian Ethics in Business at Baylor University.Dianna M. Vitanza is Associate Professor of English at Baylor University.