Until vision and ethos reunite : Christian higher education’s struggle for academic faithfulness.

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2013-08

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Stamile, David A.

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Fundamentalist/modernist controversies at Southern Methodist University, Baylor University and Rhodes College illustrate the consequences of a truth/value split that ultimately created an epistemological crisis across American college campuses during the first half of the 20th century. Such controversies were the result of a vision of truth that held that faith and knowledge had little to do with each other. All three institutions grappled with a vision for academic faithfulness and relied on ethos consisting of piety to bolster their fledgling Christian identity.

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History., Higher education., Intellectual history., Academic freedom.

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