Head, Heart, and Hand: John Brown University and Modern Evangelical Higher Education

by Richard Ostrander

Book Overview

Traveling evangelist John Brown believed that conventional colleges had become elitist and morally suspect, so he founded a small utopian college in 1919 to better combine evangelical Christianity and higher education. Historian Rick Ostrander places John Brown University in the long tradition of Christian education, but he also shows that evangelicalism had largely separated from mainstream higher education by the twentieth century. This engaging...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557287619
• ISBN13: 9781557287618
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"