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Title Nature and revelation : a history of Macalester college / Jeanne Halgren Kilde ; foreword by James Brewer Stewart
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 400 pages) : photographs
Contents Protestant roots on the prairie, 1849-1915 -- Identity and change -- Christian education and institution building in St. Paul -- The idea of a Christian college -- Twin cities rivalry -- College life and identity at the turn of the century -- Engagement with the world, 1915-1960 -- Evangelical engagement with modernism -- The collapse of the evangelical consensus -- Liberal arts in service to the nation and the world -- Dewitt Wallace's ambition -- Revolution and redirection, 1960-2000 -- The religion/education intersection transformed -- New approaches to academics, internationalism, and service -- Challenges and dashed hopes -- Countercultural campus -- Negotiating institutional democracy -- Peaks, pluralism, and prosperity
Summary Nature and Revelation is an absorbing history of Macalester College, from its origins as a Presbyterian secondary school in frontier St. Paul to its current presence as a nationally prominent liberal arts college. Detailing the college's history, Jeanne Halgren Kilde tells stories of the college's influential leaders, its defining moments, its rapidly changing student life, and the sometimes controversial evolution of the school's curriculum and reputation, exploring its transformation from a modest evangelical college into a progressive, secular institution. By highlighting the college's bala
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Macalester College -- History
SUBJECT Macalester College. fast (OCoLC)fst00521475
Subject Universities and colleges -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- History
EDUCATION -- Higher.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Universities and colleges.
Minnesota -- Saint Paul.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816673346
0816673349