Piety And Philosophy: A Primer For Christian Schools

Piety and Philosophy: A Primer For Christian Schools

Christians have a unique role to play in the future of our schools,and the author's refreshingly honest inquiry into the relationship between the spiritual life and the academic enterprise is guaranteed to provoke discussion.Review"Dick Riesen is one of the most thoughtful and daring Christian school leaders we've net. He needs to be listened to."- D. Bruce Lockerbie, Chairman/CEO Paideia, Inc., Stony Brook, NY and author of The Cosmic Center (Multnomah Publishers) "In small compass this book touches most of the important issues at the conjunction of Christianity and education. Why that conjunction is important, what it should (or should not) entail, and how it can be made most fruitful are the themes of this readable, precise, illuminating and profound volume."- Dr. Mark Noll, Professor of History, Wheaton College and author The Scandal of the Evangelical MindAbout the AuthorRichard Riesen is the former principal of Pacific Christian on the Hill in Los Angeles. He has a BA (History, University of California, Santa Barbara), an MA (History, Claremont Graduate School), a BD (Theology, University of Edinburgh), and a PhD (Ecclesiastical History, University of Edinburgh). He has also written Criticism and Faith in Late Victorian Scotland: A.B. Davidson, William Robertson Smith, and George Adam Smith. He can be reached at riesenra@earthlink.net.