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The Pluralistic Vision: Presbyterians and Mainstream Protestant Education and Leadership » (1st ed)

Authors: Milton J. Coalter (Editor), Louis B. Weeks (Editor), John M. Mulder
ISBN-13: 9780664252434, ISBN-10: 0664252435
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Date Published: December 1991
Edition: 1st ed

	Series Foreword	9
	Acknowledgments	14
	Contributors	17
	Introduction by the Editors	21
1	The Predicament of Pluralism: The Study of Theology in Presbyterian Seminaries Since the 1920s	37
2	Nurseries of Piety? Spiritual Formation at Four Presbyterian Seminaries	71
3	Presbyterian Colleges in Twentieth-Century America	99
4	Presbyterian Campus Ministries: Competing Loyalties and Changing Visions	126
5	Presbyterians and Their Publishing Houses	148
6	A Brief History of a Genre Problem: Presbyterian Educational Resource Materials	180
7	The Use of the Bible in Presbyterian Curricula, 1923-1985	205
8	Changing Leadership Patterns in the Presbyterian Church in the United States During the Twentieth Century	235
9	Transformations in Administrative Leadership in the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1920-1983	252
10	Looking for Leadership: The Emerging Style of Leadership in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), 1983-1990	276
11	Presbyterian Women Ministers: A Historical Overview and Study of the Current Status of Women Pastors	289
12	Cleavage or Consensus? A New Look at the Clergy-Laity Gap	308
13	The Values and Limits of Representation and Pluralism in the Church	327
	Notes	349
	Index	403