Christianity and Moral Identity in Higher Education (0230612407) GLANZER

Most contemporary scholarly visions of moral identity in higher education suggest moral education in the university should deal primarily with a person’s professional or political identity instead of the overall ordering and enriching of a person’s various identities and the moral commitments that stem from them. In contrast, Glanzer and Ream argue that a more human moral education takes place within a university committed to a moral tradition that can set forth a comprehensive moral ideal for the university and its students about human well-being.

Perry L. Glanzer is Associate Professor at Baylor University where he teaches in the School of Education and the Institute for Church-State Studies. He is the author of The Quest for Russia’s Soul: Evangelicals and Moral Education in Post-Communist Russia and Christian Faith and Scholarship: An Exploration of Contemporary Developments (with Todd C. Ream).

Todd C. Ream is the Associate Director of the John Wesley Honors College. He is the author of Christian Faith and Scholarship: An Exploration of Contemporary Debates (with Perry L. Glanzer).

“Glanzer and Ream initiate a conversation desperately needed concerning how Christian colleges and universities might begin, as well as do something about, the moral formation of their students. One suspects the subject has been avoided or hidden in useless generalizations because few know how to do that kind of moral training. That is why this book is so important. Glanzer and Ream actually tell us what needs to be done. How refreshing.”--Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke University

“Glanzer and Ream have written an intensely engaging, highly readable excursus into the most pressing issue for higher education – indeed, for the future of humane culture. Their thorough analysis, expert taxonomy, and compelling argument detail how even confessional Christian colleges and universities have failed to deliver a moral education, yet they offer practical help for those who would see a recovery of moral compass and ethical identity in such institutions.”--David Lyle Jeffrey, Distinguished Professor of Literature & Humanities, Baylor University

“Much to the chagrin of Stanley Fish and his comrades, Glanzer and Ream demonstrate – through compelling historical narrative and careful analysis – that every education is a moral formation. The question is: which morality? While others have made the case for Christian scholars to have a seat at the academic table, here finally is a book that highlights the unique, formative potential of Christian colleges and universities in the North American educational milieu. While many lament the demise of the university, Glanzer and Ream suggest we might find what we’ve been looking for in the most unlikely places. This is a book for Christian educators – but even more so for those cynics and skeptics who think ‘Christian education’ is an oxymoron.”--James K.A. Smith, Calvin College and Author of Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation

PART I: MORAL EDUCATION IN CONTEMPORARY HIGHER EDUCATION * Introduction: A Less than Human Education * Moral Development and Moral Order * Searching for Common, Tradition-Free Approaches to Moral Education: A Brief History * Addressing the Moral Quandary Facing Contemporary Higher Education: Moral Education in Postmodern Universities * PART II: A MORE HUMAN EDUCATION: MORAL FORMATION IN A SPECIFIC TRADITION * The Levels of Constrained Identity Agreement Used To Advance Moral Education * Case Study 1: Moral Education in Secular Colleges and Universities * Case Study 2: Moral Education among Christian Colleges and Universities * Moral Order and Moral Education within Comprehensive Moral Traditions * PART III: MORAL EDUCATION AND LIBERAL EDUCATION * Comparing Types and Levels of Constrained Identity Agreement * Diversity and Autonomy and the Different Levels of Constrained Identity Agreement * PART IV: STRENGTHENING MORAL EDUCATION IN A PARTICULAR TRADITION * Christian Humanism and Christ-Centered Education: The Redemptive Development of Humans and Human Creations * A More Human Christian Education: An Exercise in Moral Imagination

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