Includes bibliographical references.

Faith and knowledge : religion and the modern university / Douglas Sloan -- Beyond progressive scientific humanism / George M. Marsden -- One thing is necessary : on being religious (Christian) scholars / L. DeAne Lagerquist -- Staying the course : imperative and influence within the religious college / David M. O'Connell -- The future of the religious college : looking ahead by looking back / Mark A. Noll -- The glass is half full, say the president and the professor / Robert Benne -- Emerging patterns among Roman Catholic colleges and universities / Monika K. Hellwig -- Baptist models : past, present, and future / Michael D. Beaty -- Emerging models in the Church of the Nazarene / Jerry D. Lambert, Al Truesdale, and Michael W. Vail -- The intellectual appeal of Catholicism and the idea of a Catholic university / Mark W. Roche -- The perils of prosperity : Neo-Calvinism and the future of religious colleges / Joel A. Carpenter -- Lutheran higher education in the Twenty-first century / Mark R. Schwehn -- The Evangelical vision : from Fundamentalist isolation to respected voice / R. Judson Carlberg -- The United Methodist Church and its predominantly black colleges : an enduring partnership in the intellectual love of God / Samuel DuBois Cook -- The ethos of Anabaptist-Mennonite colleges / Paul A. Keim -- Reflections on Ex Corde Ecclesiae / Josheph M. Herlihy -- Academic freedom and the status of the religiously affiliated university / Eugene H. Bramhall and Ronald Z. Ahrens -- State and local issues / Kent Weeks -- Through a glass darkly / Paul J. Dovre.

In this volume scholars and educational leaders from a variety of faith traditions talk candidly about the future of religious colleges at the start of the twenty-first century. Building on competent historical and analytical studies of the past decade, the contributors consider the nature of religious education generally, explore the relationship between religious colleges and their sponsoring churches, probe a number of successful educational models, and examine the influence of public policy on religious colleges. Taken together, these constructive essays demonstrate that religious colleges still have the potential to serve well the missions of their churches and to provide a creative leaven for the advancement of academics in America.