God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School

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University of Chicago Press, 15.06.1988 - 349 Seiten
Is Bethany Baptist Academy God's choice? Ask the fundamentalist Christians who teach there or whose children attend the academy, and their answer will be a yes as unequivocal as their claim that the Bible is God's inerrant, absolute word. Is this truth or arrogance?

In God's Choice, Alan Peshkin offers readers the opportunity to consider this question in depth. Given the outsider's rare chance to observe such a school firsthand, Peshkin spent eighteen months studying Bethany's high school—interviewing students, parents, and educators, living in the home of Bethany Baptist Church members, and participating fully in the church's activities. From this intimate research he has fashioned a rich account of Christian schooling and an informed analysis of a clear alternative to public education.
 

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The Setting the Author the Times
1
2 Blessed Assurance The Dictates of Doctrine
32
3 The Kings Witnesses Called to Teach
62
4 The Structure of Control Until the Love of Christ Constraineth
90
5 Bethanys Didactic Milieu A Match for the Devils Darts
111
6 Bethanys Deviance Schooling for Spirituality
143
7 By Their Fruits The Impact of Orthodoxy
167
8 By Their Fruits Four Student Portraits
192
9 In Satans Clutches Bethanys Scorners
218
10 Bethanys Total Institution Truths Organizational Structure
257
11 Gods Choice Costs and Benefits
276
Appendixes
301
B American Association of Christian Schools Statement of Faith
303
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Autoren-Profil (1988)

Alan Peshkin is professor of comparative education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. God's Choice is the third in his series of studies exploring American communities and their schools. The other books in the series, Growing Up American and The Imperfect Union, were also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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