In this book, Mike Higton provides a constructive critique of Higher
Education policy and practice in the UK, the US and beyond, from the
standpoint of Christian theology. He focuses on the role universities
can and should play in forming students and staff in intellectual
virtue, in sustaining vibrant communities of inquiry, and in serving
the public good. He argues both that modern secular universities can
be a proper context for Christians to pursue their calling as
disciples to learn and to teach, and that Christians can contribute to
the flourishing of such universities as institutions devoted to
learning for the common good. In the process he sets out a vision of
the good university as secular and religiously plural, as socially
inclusive, and as deeply and productively entangled with the
surrounding society. Along the way, he engages with a range of
historical examples (the medieval University of Paris, the University
of Berlin in the nineteenth century, and John Henry Newman's work in
Oxford and Dublin) and with a range of contemporary writers on Higher
Education from George Marsden to Stanley Hauerwas and from David Ford
to Rowan Williams.
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ISBN
9780191613340
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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