Sentences with phrase «christian liberal arts»

Many Christian liberal arts colleges and universities offer counseling and psychology degrees, and many theological seminaries offer graduate degrees in counseling as well.

Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) is a Christian liberal arts college.

Westmont College is an interdenominational Christian liberal arts college located in Montecito, CA.

Taylor University, founded in 1846, is a Christian liberal arts college in Indiana with students, faculty and staff dedicated to living life together in a discipleship community.

California Baptist University (CBU) is a private, Christian liberal arts university located in Riverside, California.

Wheaton College (Wheaton, Ill.) is a coeducational Christian liberal arts college noted for its rigorous academics, integration of faith and learning, and consistent ranking among the top liberal arts colleges in the country.

«I think Wheaton takes very seriously its role as a Christian liberal arts institution,» she said, according to the Chicago Tribune.

California fires ripped through Westmont College last night, destroying several buildings at the Christian liberal arts college.

Rev Peterson has also been placed on paid sabbatical by bosses at North Park University, a Christian liberal arts institution (pictured below).

- Christian liberal arts college which forced at least two professors to resign for legalistic reasons - Non-denominational church in which several of us who were leaving after a Sunday School class to attend worship services at another church were confronted by the main pastor in the parking lot who literally blocked our exit until we satisfied his curiousity about why we were leaving.

A couple years ago I wrote about my visit to Augustine College, a nano - institution with paltry resources that offers a one - year program of Christian liberal arts for kids who want serious intellectual and spiritual formation before entering college.

But as an English major at a small Christian liberal arts college, I can't think of...

But as an English major at a small Christian liberal arts college, I can't think of a more fitting analogy to convey how I often feel when I talk to my friends about books.

I suspect Christian liberal arts colleges and universities will be particularly prone to this.

Graham, who became a Southern Baptist, went on to study at Wheaton College, a prominent Christian liberal arts school in Illinois, where he met fellow student Ruth Bell, who had been raised in China where her father had been a Presbyterian medical missionary.

Not exact matches

College of the Ozarks, a Christian liberal - arts college located in Missouri, has a $ 416 million endowment.

This is the basis upon which Christians could embrace the humanities and the liberal arts.

So too, we find even among contemporary Christian defenders of the liberal arts a tendency to instrumentalize them.

While Crosby's interest in this article is limited to Tertullian's quandary (and our own) of relating the elements of the Christian university, that is, philosophy, literature, history, and the liberal arts, to the life of redemption and faith, the underlying issue at stake seems easily to extend beyond intellectual culture.

William Carey started a liberal arts and science college for both «Christian and Heathen» students rather than strictly theological seminary for missionary students native or East Indian.

Christian writers like Augustine connected to the moral and spiritual aims of the liberal arts while resisting the way in which it shaped the child for a culture that was not essentially Christian.

I was talking to these churchmen about apocalyptic and I did this liberal arts, comparative, secular review of the Book of Daniel, the Book of the Apocalypse, and he was wrong and these people and Montanus, they were wrong, on and on and on and on; four days of listening to these wrong prophecies that described the history of Christian apocalypticism.

Yet, most evangelical institutions remain firmly committed to the older liberal arts model of formation, fusing it with worldview analysis in order to cultivate an educated Christian laity who can then change society.

Although the emphasis on biblical languages declined, and the new sciences, including the social sciences, were given large place, these colleges resisted practical training in favor of liberal arts, understood in a humanistic, Christian perspective.

But clearly it was a liberal arts education, geared to the appropriation of the Christian tradition, and assuming that learning and faith are mutually supportive.

To a point, however, accommodation to culture is appropriate to the liberal church, particularly in attempting to understand the Christian faith from the perspective and insights of the arts and sciences of the time.

First, several small but notable Christian colleges (unmentioned by Epstein) still promote the liberal arts through their rigorous core curriculums: Thomas Aquinas College (which offers one degree: B.A. in the liberal arts), the University of Dallas, and Calvin College all deserve mentions.

A Christian, liberal arts education demands the very humility which intellectual or religious legalism often rejects.

Liberal arts colleges persisted after World War II, but except for the most conservative ones, their Christian identity faded.

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

D. W. Robertson, J., NY: Liberal Arts, 1958) In the struggle between Christianity and paganism Augustine embarked on a twofold task when writing this book: (1) to define Christian doctrine in such as way as to preserve an exclusive gospel while sifting out pagan accretions; and, (2) to effect a rapprochement between revealed truth and those aspects of pagan learning not inherently antagonistic to that truth.

There is no need to deny that the liberal arts may have these uses — I believe they do — but such uses do not define, as Prof. Leithart asserts, an authentic Christian education.

You could correctly surmise that I am not an advocate of liberal arts education as something intrinsic to Christian universities.

First US «microcollege» Helps Single Moms Become Liberal Arts Graduates (The Christian Science Monitor) Paul Reville comments on a new higher ed approach for supporting disadvantaged populations and helping them complete college.

Masa received a BS in Liberal Arts from International Christian University, and he is a CFA charterholder and a chartered member of the Security Analysts Association of Japan.

The counseling program provides a liberal arts education based on a Christian perspective that promotes respect for the diversity of each person as uniquely created by God.