Introduction : the Christian colleges and American intellectual traditions / Mark A. Noll
THE COLONIAL PERIOD. The pervading Christian purpose of colonial education
Instructors and the instruction
Students and student life
THE OLD-TIME COLLEGE. The expansion of Christian higher education
The state university as a Protestant college
NEW COLLEGES AND NEW PROGRAMS. Higher education for blacks
Colleges founded by the newly rich and the new immigrants
The new curriculum and its effects
Athletics and fraternities
THE MOVEMENT TOWARD SECULARIZATION. Sources of secularization
The process of secularization : the universities
The process of secularization : the church colleges
Varieties of Protestant higher education by 1980
THE RESPONSE TO SECULARIZATION. The YMCA and other student Christian organizations
The Bible college movement
Fundamentalism and higher education
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION AFTER 1945. The emerging line-up of the continuing Christian college
The emerging identity of the continuing Christian college
In partnership with the government
ON TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. The recovery continues
New constituencies and extended borders
Enlarging the faith and learning dialogue