Educating for Shalom: Essays on Christian Higher Education

In addition to his notable work as a premier Christian philosopher, Nicholas Wolterstorff has become a leading voice on faith-based higher education. This volume gathers the best of Wolterstorff's essays from the past twenty-five years dealing collectively with the purpose of Christian higher education and the nature of academic learning.

Integrated throughout by the biblical idea of shalom, these nineteen essays present a robust framework for thinking about education that combines a Reformed confessional perspective with a radical social conscience and an increasingly progressivist pedagogy. Wolterstorff develops his ideas in relation to an astonishing variety of thinkers ranging from Calvin, Kuyper, and Jellema to Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant to Weber, Habermas, and MacIntyre. In the process, he critiques various models of education, classic foundationalism, modernization theory, liberal arts, and academic freedom.

Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 03/02/2004
Pages: 310
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.38w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9780802827531

Review Citation(s):
Christian Century 11/16/2004 pg. 45

About the Author
Wolterstorff, Nicholas: - Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus ofPhilosophical Theology at Yale University. Before going toYale he was Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College inGrand Rapids, Michigan, for thirty years.

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