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Exiles from Eden - Religion and the Academic Vocation in America (Paperback, New ed)
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Exiles from Eden - Religion and the Academic Vocation in America (Paperback, New ed)
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Exiles From Eden sounds a call to the American academic community
to begin seeking a solution to the many problems facing higher
education today by rediscovering a proper sense of its vocation.
Schwehn argues that the modern university has forgotten its
spiritual foundations and that it needs to reappropriate those
foundations before it can creatively and responsibly reform itself.
The first part of the book offers a critical examination of the
ethos of the modern academy, especially its understanding of
knowledge, teaching, and learning. Schwehn then formulates a
description of the "new cultural context" within which the world of
higher learning is presently situated. Finally, he develops a view
of knowledge and inquiry that is linked essentially to character,
friendship, and community. In the process, he demonstrates that the
practice of certain spiritual virtues is and always has been
essential to the process of genuine learning - even within the
secular academy. Schwehn critiques philosophies of higher education
he sees as misguided, from Weber and Henry Adams to Derek Bok,
Allan Bloom, and William G. Perry, Jr., drawing out valid insights,
while always showing the theological underpinnings of the so-called
secular thinkers. He emphasizes the importance of community,
drawing on both the secular communitarian theory of Richard Rorty
and that of the Christian theorist Parker Palmer. Finally, he
outlines his own prescription for a classroom-centered spiritual
community of scholars. Exiles From Eden examines the relationship
between religion and higher learning in a way that is at once
historical and philosophical and that is both critical and
constructive. It calls for nothing lessthan a reunion of the
intellectual, the moral, and the spiritual virtues within the world
of higher education in America. It will engage all those concerned
with higher education in America today: faculty, students, parents,
alumni, administrators, trustees, and foundation officers.
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