E-book
Realizing our intentions : a guide for churches and colleges with distinctive missions
Record details
- ISBN: 9780891128137 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0891128131 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780891125396
- ISBN: 0891125396
- ISBN: 9780891125372
- ISBN: 089112537X
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (287 pages) - Publisher: Abilene, Tex. : Abilene Christian University Press, [2009]
- Copyright: ©2009
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-28/7). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Longer-term trends -- Recent developments -- Secularization -- Organizational dynamics -- Generalizations from experience -- The recent past and the present situation -- Curriculum: a different "what?" -- Instruction: a different "how?" -- Why might some churches want schools that are different? -- Intentional "secularization" -- Diversity, pluralism, and community -- Academic freedom -- Faculty teams for distinctive missions -- A student peer environment that furthers the mission -- Missions that guide decision-making -- Trustees that hold in trust the long-term future -- Presidents who implement the long-term mission -- Churches that want schools with a difference -- Intervening in the system -- Epilogue: what are the prospects? |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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