The Character, Mission, and Future of Lutheran Higher Education

This article looks at the history of Lutheran higher education in the United States, discusses what Lutheran institutions of higher education must do to remain vital centers of learning, and examines questions that face American higher education in general

Liberal Learning and Christian Practical Wisdom

Many faculty members who are devoted to liberal education have become increasingly perplexed in today’s academy about how best to integrate the several courses that students must take in order to graduate into a coherent whole. In this essay, Schwehn argues that Christian practical wisdom may hold out the prospect of reintegrating curricula that have splintered into disconnected fragments, at least on a conceptual level, and of reinvigorating teaching across all of the disciplines. In other words, all academics need renewed attention to the wisdom within various religious traditions; Christian academics need renewed attention to the cultivation of Christian practical wisdom as an educational ideal

The future of teaching

In 1960, the distinguished American colonial historian Bernard Bailyn published a small essay that deeply influenced the manner in which an entire generation of social and intellectual historians came to think about education. Entitled Education in the Forming of American Society, the essay argued for a view of education that now seems to be very much a commonplace, namely that education should not be reduced to “schooling” but that it should instead be regarded as “the entire process by whic..

The Character, Mission, and Future of Lutheran Higher Education

This article looks at the history of Lutheran higher education in the United States, discusses what Lutheran institutions of higher education must do to remain vital centers of learning, and examines questions that face American higher education in general

The future of teaching

In 1960, the distinguished American colonial historian Bernard Bailyn published a small essay that deeply influenced the manner in which an entire generation of social and intellectual historians came to think about education. Entitled Education in the Forming of American Society, the essay argued for a view of education that now seems to be very much a commonplace, namely that education should not be reduced to “schooling” but that it should instead be regarded as “the entire process by whic..