A sampling of sources: for information on pluralism and secularization, see Gary Scott Smith's The Seeds of Secularization: Calvinism, Culture, and Pluralism in America, 1870-1915 (Christian University Press, 1985). For more on faith, secularism, and higher education, see George Marsden's The Soul of the American University (Oxford, 1994) and James Tunstead Burtchaell's "The Decline and Fall of the Christian College" (First Things, April and May 1991). A General Theory of Secularization (Harper and Row, 1978) is sociologist David Martin's comprehensive history and analysis of the dynamics of secularism.
Robert W. Jenson, Essays in Theology of Culture (Eerdmans, 1995).
Alvin Kernan, In Plato's Cave (Yale University Press, 1999).
Marion Montgomery, The Truth of Things: Liberal Arts and the Recovery of Reality (Spence, 1999). [Posted October 2001, ALG]
 In 1996 First Things published the addresses Gertrude Himmelfarb and Richard John Neuhaus gave at the installation of Robert Bryan Sloan, Jr., as president of Baylor University. Himmelfarb's "A Call to Counterrevolution" is available here, and Neuhaus's "Eleven Theses" is available here. Both are reflections on Christian universities and the necessity for them. [Posted December 2005, ALG]
The Truth about Harvard
Sure, Harvard is hard, but not the way you might think. Writing in The Atlantic (March 2005), a recent Harvard graduate reflected on what was missing from his education. Ross Douthat observes that getting into Harvard was hard. Once there "it was hard work competing for offices and honors and extracurriculars with thousands of brilliant and driven young people; hard work keeping our heads in the swirling social world; hard work fighting for law-school slots and investment-banking jobs as college wound to a close . . . yes, all of that was heavy sledding. But the academics—the academics were another story."
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Stanley Fish, on how university professors should refrain from bringing their own political, philosophical, and religious commitments into the classroom (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-097.1.2
Tim Clydesdale, on what the first year in college means for teens (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-094.1.4
Norman Klassen & Jens Zimmermann, on how various dualisms affect our assumptions about faith, knowledge, and higher education (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-086.2.3
Harry R. Lewis, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on how colleges and universities can help students grow into adulthood (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-084.2.4
Harry R. Lewis, on higher education's amnesia about its purposes, and how that shortchanges students (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-084.1.1
Mark Bauerlein, on the causes of disengagement of college students from concern for intellectual and civic life (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-078.1.1
Russell Moore, on the struggles at Baylor University, "soul competency," and the Baptist culture of autonomy (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-074.1.1
Daniel Ritchie, on the survival of "Great Books" programs at religious colleges (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-069.2.1
Ian Ker, on John Henry Newman and the purpose of education (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-052.2.1
Arthur Holmes, on the history of Christianity and education in the liberal arts (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-050.2.1
D. G. Hart, on The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-046.1.2
Marion Montgomery, on how higher education has lost its way (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-039.2.1
Alvin Kernan, on why the academy can't afford to be too democratic (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-038.1.2
James Tunstead Burtchaell, on how church-related colleges become secularized (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-036.1.2
Wilfred McClay, on history and academic advancement (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-031.2.2
John Ellis, on Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-030.2.2
George Marsden, on The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-025.2.2
Lynne Cheney, on the politics of ideas in higher education (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-021.1.2
Robert Jenson, on why the life of the mind matters to the Church, and how it should take shape in the world (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-020.2.2
George Marsden, on the establishment of nonbelief in American universities (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-010.2.3
Dean Kenyon, on his fight for academic freedom at San Francisco State University (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-007.1.1
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