Sentences with phrase «denominational colleges»

The nationwide network of denominational colleges was started, and in the early days supported, with church money.

When the Carnegie Foundation inquired as to «whether denominational connection or control ministers to the religious or intellectual life,» the respondents in the denominational colleges declared «almost without exception that such connections played little, if any, part in the religious or intellectual life of the student body.»

By the way, they also recommended cutting some denominational colleges to set up one or two first rate educational institutions of their conception managed by the Christian missions and churches in unity and the Tambaram version of the Madras Christian College was one result of it.

This was especially true for me after attending a denominational college and working overseas with missionaries from my church tradition.

A minister of a mainline Protestant denomination, newly hired as a chaplain of a denominational college, met with a committee of the regional judicatory within whose bounds he would be working.

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If the data were acquired by asking students about their own college, then especially at schools with strong denominational ties there are almost certainly social pressure on individual students to maintain the appearance of piety.

First, a move to negate the communal - denominational approach to educational enterprise and to make intellectual dialogue among concerned teachers and post-graduate students of different religious and secular ideological faiths for exploring a new relevant common anthropology and social ethic in a pluralist India, central to the Christian college.

Christian colleges are even denominational in character.

Involvement in campus ministries was often the next step, typically at a denominational or private liberal arts college that sent substantial numbers of students on to seminary.

One can imagine Campbell's appalled reaction to the kind of authority exercised by megachurch pastors or denominational executives today» or to the fact that Baptists not only continue to call their ministers «Reverend» and «Doctor» but also have de facto bishops and even a so «called «college of cardinals,» as some moderate critics have dubbed conservative SBC leaders.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Those institutions became so big, with all of their colleges and summer camps and denominational headquarters.

In its religious life the college should be as little as possible denominational.

Denominations may lay the eggs of colleges; indeed, most of our colleges owe their inception to such denominational zeal.

There was an immediate wave of schools that renounced their denominational allegiance in favor of «sympathy» in order to qualify for the grants: colleges such as Dickinson, Goucher, and Bowdoin.

Universities and colleges still had visible vestiges of denominational histories.

The book's sixteen chapters, all by different authors, treat such features of denominational life as campus ministry, church - related colleges, women's organizations, theological schools, and foreign missions.

Imagine what would happen if all the evangelical institutions — youth organizations, publications, colleges and seminaries, congregations and denominational headquarters — would dare to undertake a comprehensive two - year examination of their total program and activity to answer this question: Is there the same balance and emphasis on justice for the poor and oppressed in our programs as there is in Scripture?

Some former church colleges that clearly have left behind their denominational origins now operate simply as private «secular institutions, as is their right.

Officials at the college found the question offensive, as would most people involved in denominational schools.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.