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Introduction. Does pietism provide a "usable past" for Christian colleges and universities? / Christopher Gehrz -- Part one : teaching, scholarship and community in the pietist university. Pietism and faith-learning integration in the evangelical university / David C. Williams ; Calling for pietist community : pia desideria in the classroom / Katherine J. Nevins ; Love and learning : a model for pietist scholarship in the disciplines / Jenell Paris ; The quest for an evangelical university : the educational visions of Carl F. H. Henry and Carl H. Lundquist / Phyllis E. Alsdurf ; Reconceiving the Christ-centered college : convertive piety and life together / Roger E. Olson -- Part two : changed people changing the world : pietists and their neighbors' good. The common priesthood seeking the common good / Dale G. Durie ; Pietism and the practice of civil discourse / Christian T. Collins Winn ; Love my (religious) neighbor : a pietist approach to Christian responsibility in a pluralistic world / Marion H. Larson and Sara L. H. Shady -- Part three : responses : views from the natural and health sciences. Pietist values in science and science education / Richard W. Peterson ; A pietist approach to nursing education in a Christian university / Nancy L. Olen -- Part four : problems and proposals : putting the pietist vision into practice. Intellectual virtue and the adventurous Christ follower / Raymond J. VanArragon ; Organizational identity and the pietist ethos / Joel S. Ward ; Curating the usable past for a vital future : an Anabaptist vision for pietism / Kent T. K. Gerber ; Neoliberal challenges to the pietist vision of Christian higher education / Samuel Zalanga -- Conclusion. "Their mission is innovation" : The pietist university in the twenty-first century / Christopher Gehrz.

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