Wilderness and paradise in Christian thought : the Biblical experience of the desert in the history of Christianity & the paradise theme in the theological idea of the university /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper & Brothers,
c1962.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Menno Simons lectures ;
1958 |
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Table of Contents:
- part 1. The wilderness theme: permutations of the Biblical experience of the desert in the history of Christianity. Wilderness and desert: garden and paradise in the Bible
- Wilderness and paradise in the baptismal theology of the church of the martyrs, in monasticism, and in mysticism
- Fleeing to and planting in the wilderness in the Reformation period and modern times
- The enclosed garden in the wilderness of the New World
- Conclusion: Wasteland and wilderness
- part 2. The theological idea of the university: the paradise theme and related motifs in the history of higher education. The conception of a university in the theology of the founders and fathers of Harvard
- The five themes in the history of the university in the Old World to the Reformation
- The survival and restatement of the university themes in Calvinism
- Surviving traces of the five themes in the conflicts between college, church, and commonwealth after Increase and Cotton Mather
- Epilogue: The Christian heritage and a theory of American higher education.