First Things RSS Feed - James Tunstead Burtchaell https://www.firstthings.com/author/james-tunstead-burtchaell en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:19 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/james-tunstead-burtchaell 60 The Necessity of Community https://www.firstthings.com/article/1998/10/003-the-necessity-of-community https://www.firstthings.com/article/1998/10/003-the-necessity-of-community Thu, 01 Oct 1998 00:00:00 -0400 All the Essential Half”Truths About Higher Education
By George Dennis O’Brien
University of Chicago Press. 243 pp. $19.95

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]]> Church and Academy https://www.firstthings.com/article/1998/03/003-church-and-academy https://www.firstthings.com/article/1998/03/003-church-and-academy Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00:00 -0500 Theological Education in the Catholic Tradition: Contemporary Challenges
Edited by Patrick W. Carey and Earl C. Muller
Crossroad. 423 pp. $19.95

Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
By Jackson Carroll, Barbara Wheeler, Daniel Aleshire, and Penny Long Marler
Oxford University Press. 290 pp. $36.

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]]> The Decline and Fall of the Christian College (II) https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/05/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-christian-college-ii https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/05/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-christian-college-ii Wed, 01 May 1991 00:00:00 -0400 The first part of this essay, published in last month’s issue, recounted how the process of estrangement between Vanderbilt University and the Southern Methodist Church was typical of the alienation of mainstream Protestant colleges and universities from their churches, occurring from about 1870 to 1910. Educators who anticipated that churchmen might use their leverage to obstruct rather than encourage their plans for academic reform withdrew their colleges and universities from ecclesiastical governance. Deploring “sectarian” narrowness, they bound their campuses’ intellectual and disciplinary life to a generic Christianity rather than to any actual church. A new generation of faculty, with neither commitment to nor interest in joining a community of faith, brought their institutions into a new secular obedience. It was noted, finally, that the initiatives which assured the swift secularization of these campuses were undertaken by educators who were themselves observant believers who failed to foresee that the academy had no way to remain Christian without vital membership in an ecclesiastical fellowship.

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]]> The Decline and Fall of the Christian College https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/04/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-christian-college https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/04/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-christian-college Mon, 01 Apr 1991 00:00:00 -0500 Every one shall consider the main End of his life and studies, to know God and Jesus Christ which is Eternal life. John xvii.3.
 —Laws, Liberties, and Orders of Harvard College, circa 1646

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]]> Saints as Givers, Saints as Guides https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/03/saints-as-givers-saints-as-guides https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/03/saints-as-givers-saints-as-guides Fri, 01 Mar 1991 00:00:00 -0500 Making Saints: How the Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn’t and Why
by kenneth l. woodward
simon and schuster, 461 pages, $24.95

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