James Tunstead Burtchaell

All the Essential Half”Truths About Higher Education By George Dennis O’Brien University of Chicago Press. 243 pp. $19.95 Dennis O’Brien is well entitled to publish a presidential memoir. The great college presidents used to do it: Willam Jewett Tucker of Dartmouth, Charles Eliot of . . . . Continue Reading »

Theological Education in the Catholic Tradition: Contemporary Challenges Edited by Patrick W. Carey and Earl C. Muller Crossroad. 423 pp. $19.95 Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools By Jackson Carroll, Barbara Wheeler, Daniel Aleshire, and Penny Long Marler Oxford . . . . Continue Reading »

If the Vanderbilt transition from Methodist to neuter exhibits a typical pattern of academic secularization, what we will find at the root of these events is a sponsoring church that is nonchalant about its burden: one that wishes to be the patron of a college or university without being its . . . . Continue Reading »

Legion are the universities and colleges in the United States founded under the auspices of the churches. Princeton, Calvin, Hanover, Tulsa, and Macalaster were founded as Presbyterian or Reformed. Brown, Baylor, Wake Forest, Spelman, and Vassar were Baptist. Haverford, Swarthmore, Earlham, . . . . Continue Reading »

Newman did not regard himself as a theologian, and it would distort his accomplishments to call him one. He was that rarer and more comprehensive figure, a Christian humanist, who set his face against utilitarians of both the mind and the spirit. The spirit of Newman sought wholeness of vision: the . . . . Continue Reading »