The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches

About this book

James Tunstead Burtchaell who has extensive experience in American higher education as both a teacher and an administrator provides case studies of seventeen prominent colleges and universities with diverse ecclesial origins - Congregational Presbyterian Methodist Baptist Lutheran Catholic and Evangelical. Using published and archival sources as well as firsthand interaction with each institution he covers Burtchaell narrates how each schools religious identity eventually became first uncomfortable and then expendable and he analyzes the processes that eroded the bonds between school and church.