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Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Religious Scholars in the Academy: -- Anachronism or Leaven? -- Faith and Knowledge: Religion and the Modern University -- Douglas Sloan -- Beyond Progressive Scientific Humanism -- George M. Marsden -- One Thing Is Necessary: On Being Religious (Christian) Scholars -- L. DeAne Lagerquist -- The Religious College: -- Dying Light or New Dawning? -- Staying the Course: Imperative and Influence within -- the Religious College -- David M. O'Connell -- CONTENTS -- The Future of the Religious College: -- Looking Ahead by Looking Back -- Mark A. Noll -- The Glass Is Half Full, Say the President and the Professor -- Robert Benne -- Identity and Relationship: -- Emerging Models -- Emerging Patterns among Roman Catholic Colleges -- and Universities -- Monika K. Hellwig -- Baptist Models: Past, Present, and Future -- Michael D. Beaty -- Emerging Models in the Church of the Nazarene -- Jerry D. Lambert, Al Truesdale, and Michael W. Vail -- Embodying Religious Mission: -- Alternative Visions -- The Intellectual Appeal of Catholicism and -- the Idea of a Catholic University -- Mark W. Roche -- The Perils of Prosperity: Neo-Calvinism and -- the Future of Religious Colleges -- Joel A. Carpenter -- Lutheran Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century -- Mark R. Schwehn -- The Evangelical Vision: From Fundamentalist Isolation -- to Respected Voice -- R. Judson Carlberg -- The United Methodist Church and Its Predominantly -- Black Colleges: An Enduring Partnership in the -- Intellectual Love of God -- Samuel DuBois Cook -- The Ethos of Anabaptist-Mennonite Colleges -- Paul A. Keim -- Religious Colleges in the Public Square -- Reflections on Ex Corde Ecclesiae -- Joseph M. Herlihy -- Academic Freedom and the Status of the -- Religiously Affiliated University -- Eugene H. Bramhall and Ronald Z. Ahrens -- State and Local Issues -- Kent Weeks -- Conclusion -- Through a Glass Darkly -- Paul J. Dovre -- Notes on Contributors.