Nature and revelation : a history of Macalester college / Jeanne Halgren Kilde ; foreword by James Brewer Stewart.
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Nature and revelation : a history of Macalester college / Jeanne Halgren Kilde ; foreword by James Brewer Stewart.
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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
©2010
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1 online resource (xii, 400 pages) : illustrations
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Contents:
Foreword / James Brewer Stewart -- Part I. Protestant roots on the prairie, 1849-1915. Identity and change ; Christian education and institution building in St. Paul ; The idea of a Christian college ; Twin cities rivalry ; College life and identity at the turn of the century -- Part II. Engagement with the world, 1915-1960. Evangelical engagement with modernism ; The collapse of the evangelical consensus ; Liberal arts in service to the nation and the world ; Dewitt Wallace's ambition -- Part III. Revolution and redirection, 1960-2000. The religion-education intersection transformed ; New approaches to academics, internationalism, and service ; Challenges and dashed hopes ; Countercultural campus ; Negotiating institutional democracy ; Peaks, pluralism, and prosperity -- Epilogue.
Summary:
Chronicles the history of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, detailing its evolution from a Presbyterian secondary school in frontier St. Paul to a nationally prominent liberal arts college. Highlights influential leaders and defining moments in the school's history, and examines the school's transition from an evangelical college into a progressive, secular institution and the relationship between religion and education during the twentieth century.
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