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A Christian University: Defining the Difference

Mark R. Schwehn

The title of George Marsden’s most recent book on Christian higher education referred to the idea of Christian scholarship as “outrageous.” For many people, the idea of a Christian...

King Lear Beyond Reason: Love and Justice in the Family

Mark R. Schwehn

The practice of combining love and justice in the governance of relationships between parents and children is crucial to the moral formation of the young. This balancing act also...

Alasdair MacIntyre’s University

Mark R. Schwehn

Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry by Alasdair MacIntyre University of Notre Dame Press, 241 pages, $24.95 Over the course of the last five years or so the quality...

Religion and the Life of Learning

Mark R. Schwehn

What can we know? How should we live? In what or whom should we hope? A historian might fruitfully divide Western intellectual life into periods or cultures according to...