Leading Lutheran Higher Education in a Secular Age by Brian B... - 9781978706033

Leading Lutheran Higher Education in a Secular AgeReligious Identity, Mission, and Vocation at ELCA Colleges and Universities\nAuthor(s): Brian Beckstrom\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic\nISBN-13: 9781978706033, 978-1978706033\nSynopsis\nLutheran colleges and universities occupy a distinctive space in American higher education. In an age where the dividing line between sacred and secular has become blurred, Brian Beckstrom argues that their \""rooted and open\"" approach, combined with adaptive theological leadership, could be the best hope for faith based higher education. To do so, he provides an overview of Lutheran higher education, its history, and identity, and combines surveys of students, faculty, and staff at Lutheran institutions with leadership theory and theological reflection. Leaders at Lutheran colleges and universities will find it to be helpful in understanding their mission, identity, an.