Christian Higher Education and Postmodernity

Institutional Fallibilism
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-138-01382-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Religion and Education

There has been much dialogue among higher education scholars regarding the implications of the emergent postmodern paradigm, and thought leaders in the evangelical world have noted with concern the postmodern challenge to exclusivist truth claims. However, few have sought to situate the challenges Christian higher education faces within the larger shifts in practice taking place across the wider postsecondary sector. This volume is the first to describe an empirically-informed model for Christian colleges and universities to successfully address the challenges of postmodernity.

This volume broadly draws upon recent cultural and philosophical history to describe the present institutional context, using organizational theory to explore the competing demands found within the Christian college’s key constituencies. It introduces new testing models for institutional practice, and concludes with a consideration of how institutional fallibilism might contribute to a reconstructed public sphere in postmodernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rine, P Jesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.The Postmodern Academy 2. Cultural Change and Organizational Persistence 3. The Christian Case for Fallibilist Epistemology 4. Fallibilist Christian Spirituality and its Predictors 5. Toward a Theory of Institutional Fallibilism 6. The Postmodern University and the Public Sphere

Über Autor(innen)

P. Jesse Rine is director of research and grants initiatives at the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities in Washington, DC.