Mike Higton
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199643929
- eISBN:
- 9780191738845
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199643929.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Religion and Society
The conclusion reflects on two limits to the argument of the book. First, it notes that a secular and religiously plural university is not, and should not be, the church. It asks what role explicitly ...
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The conclusion reflects on two limits to the argument of the book. First, it notes that a secular and religiously plural university is not, and should not be, the church. It asks what role explicitly Christian worship and discipleship – and the call to others to become Christian worshippers and disciples – can and should nevertheless play in such a context, and conclude that, while a public university is properly secular and religiously plural, practices of Christian worship and discipleship do fundamentally belong on campus. Second, it examines another kind of limit: the inevitability that the university will remain an ambiguous and problematic institution, and that labour for its good will meet all too regularly with frustration.Less
The conclusion reflects on two limits to the argument of the book. First, it notes that a secular and religiously plural university is not, and should not be, the church. It asks what role explicitly Christian worship and discipleship – and the call to others to become Christian worshippers and disciples – can and should nevertheless play in such a context, and conclude that, while a public university is properly secular and religiously plural, practices of Christian worship and discipleship do fundamentally belong on campus. Second, it examines another kind of limit: the inevitability that the university will remain an ambiguous and problematic institution, and that labour for its good will meet all too regularly with frustration.
Warren Goldstein
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300102215
- eISBN:
- 9780300135053
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300102215.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter focuses on the period of A. Sidney Lovett's retirement as university chaplain. Men whom the president trusted were lobbying Bill Coffin. Philosopher Paul Weiss, the first tenured Jew on ...
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This chapter focuses on the period of A. Sidney Lovett's retirement as university chaplain. Men whom the president trusted were lobbying Bill Coffin. Philosopher Paul Weiss, the first tenured Jew on the Yale faculty, whom Yale President A. Whitney Griswold had asked to listen for “large rumblings from the faculty,” reported that “the most diverse types say that the right man to get as Chaplain is William Coffin....apparently a large number of faculty, religious and non-religious, Christian and otherwise, think that Coffin is the man. I think so too.” Impressed, Griswold scribbled a note to his secretary: “Pls. ack. by phone & say I'd like to hear more when I get back.”Less
This chapter focuses on the period of A. Sidney Lovett's retirement as university chaplain. Men whom the president trusted were lobbying Bill Coffin. Philosopher Paul Weiss, the first tenured Jew on the Yale faculty, whom Yale President A. Whitney Griswold had asked to listen for “large rumblings from the faculty,” reported that “the most diverse types say that the right man to get as Chaplain is William Coffin....apparently a large number of faculty, religious and non-religious, Christian and otherwise, think that Coffin is the man. I think so too.” Impressed, Griswold scribbled a note to his secretary: “Pls. ack. by phone & say I'd like to hear more when I get back.”
