Robert Benne
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Keeping The Soul In Christian Higher Education
$31.99Add to cartMany colleges with historical church ties experience significant tension between the desire to compete in the secularized world of higher education and the desire to remain connected to their religious commitments and communities. In this history of one such school, Roanoke College, Robert Benne not only explores the school’s 175-year tradition of educational excellence but also lays bare its complicated and ongoing relationship with its religious heritage.
Benne examines the vision of ten of Roanoke’s presidents and how those visions played out in college life. As he tells the college’s story, Benne points to specific strengths and weaknesses of Roanoke’s strategies for keeping the soul in higher education and elaborates what other Christian colleges can learn from Roanoke’s long quest.
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Ordinary Saints : An Introduction To The Christian Life (Student/Study Guide)
$26.00Add to cartThis thoroughly reworked and updated second edition provides students, lay people, and pastors with an insightful orientation to living the Christian life at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Benne begins with a sprightly review of the Christian vision and ethos for daily living as the biblical message addresses the felt and formulated needs of a new generation of Americans… Thought-provoking discussion questions and bibliographies heighten the usefulness of this volume for teaching and learning in the college classroom and in parish studies.
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Paradoxical Vision : A Public Theology For The Twenty-First Century
$22.00Add to cartThis is a good book that had to be written, and it is our great fortune that Robert Benne has written it with such scholary care, engaging lucidity,and persuasive force. The tangled connections between ultimate truth and penulimate questions of the public order are here untangled with great skill and imagination. The paradoxical Vision is both and admirable summary of religion and society disputes of the last several decades and a bracing proposal for thinking more clearly and acting more intelligently in the years ahead.