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Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools

By Daniel O. Aleshire, Jackson W. Carroll, Penny Long Marler
and Barbara G. Wheeler.

Oxford . 1997. 299 pp. $35. ISBN 0-19-511493-0

Reviewed by David Steele

 

The book has a snappy title: Being There. I wanted to read it because one of the four authors is Barbara G. Wheeler, president of Auburn Seminary, and I think she has one of the best minds in Christendom.

I figured if she was involved, the book would be good -- although the blurb on the back cover almost caused me to send it back: " . . . We have here what could easily become a paradigmatic scholarly approach to the synchronic interpretation of institutions of higher education." Yuck!

Fortunately I opened the book. What is inside is a lot more readable and interesting than the cover implies. Four academicians, two evangelicals and two...

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