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| Format | Dissertation |
|---|---|
| Creator | Hanle, Robert Vail |
| Title | A History of Higher Education Among the German Baptist Brethren: 1708-1908. Dissertation |
| Dissertation Note (type -- academic institution) | Dissertation -- University of Pennsylvania |
| Date | 1974 |
| Extent of Work | 316 pp. |
| Abstract | From their inception colleges and universities are in a continuous struggle for life. The tensions for survival are not between abstract ideologies, nor are they between the institutions of higher education and society as such. They are between groups of individuals, each group striving for identity. The contention is between committed people endeavoring to advance educational, social, and moral principles favorable to them, and to frustrate those policies inimical to them. No escape from these struggles was afforded those institutions of higher learning established by the German Baptist Brethren during the latter half of the nineteenth century. However, for this group of German pietists, it was not merely a question of survival of the fruits of their efforts in establishing small colleges; it was why a small denomination of backwoods religion, silent and void of literary activity for more than a half century should emerge with a sudden burst of interest in formal schooling. The purpose of this study is to examine those changes of attitudes from within the church of the German Baptist Brethren toward the establishment of higher educational institutions that can be interpreted as possible links with the secularizing elements of the nineteenth century society. |
| Notes | UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat. |
| Call Number | MKI LC586 B7 H3; shelved with MKI dissertations |
| MKI Terms | Education/ Brethren Church/ Religion/ Germans |