Educating for Shalom: Essays on Christian Higher Education (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802827531)

In addition to his notable work as a premier Christian philosopher, Nicholas Wolterstorff has become a leading voice on faith-based higher education. This volume gathers the best of Wolterstorff's essays from the past twenty-five years dealing collectively with the purpose of Christian higher education and the nature of academic learning.

Integrated throughout by the biblical idea of shalom, these nineteen essays present a robust framework for thinking about education that combines a Reformed confessional perspective with a radical social conscience and an increasingly progressivist pedagogy. Wolterstorff develops his ideas in relation to an astonishing variety of thinkers ranging from Calvin, Kuyper, and Jellema to Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant to Weber, Habermas, and MacIntyre. In the process, he critiques various models of education, classic foundationalism, modernization theory, liberal arts, and academic freedom.

Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff
ISBN-10: 0802827535
ISBN-13: 9780802827531
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 03/02/2004
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.38w x 0.96d

Review Citation(s):
Christian Century 11/16/2004 pg. 45