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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.

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Nicholas Wolterstoff, the Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale, is the most versatile and influential Christian philosopher of our time. His work has covered aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, religion, and more.

This book, however, focuses on education—particularly what Christian university education should be and can be in our time. As one who has spent much of his career in Christian universities, I found Wolterstorff’s concepts to help us move well beyond the “knowledge plus piety” convention to a truly integrative model that brings together the best of the Christian religion, the Berlin research university, the Oxbridge college, and the…

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