Ways in which philosophical inquiry serve the Christian scholar include these: providing historical analogues, useful paradigms, principles for interpretation of occurrences, tools for systematic analysis of intellectual and social systems, rhetoric of dissent, strategies for change, and mechanisms for preservation of concepts. (Author/MSE)

The Christian college has been through two stages in its history and is entering a third. This stage is characterized by more international concerns and consciousness, new packaging and delivery systems for learning, and greater concern for building bridges from theory to practice for social change. (Author/MSE)

Discusses the conditions under which Christian higher education can facilitate a healthy and informed examination of religious precept and social complexity and assist in creating a productive response to the latter through Christian values. (MSE)

The main purpose of the Institute for Christian Leadership is to help church-related colleges and universities unite across denominational boundaries to cultivate and develop their own intellectual resources for positive societal and institutional change, in part by outlining strategies for cooperative as well as individual efforts to this end.…