God's Choice The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School

Name: God's Choice The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School
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ISBN: 9780226661995

ISBN-10: 0226661997

ISBN-13: 9780226661995

Edition: 1988

Authors: Alan Peshkin

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Is Bethany Baptist Academy God's choice? Ask the fundamentalist Christians who teach there or whose children attend the academy, and their answer will be a yes as unequivocal as their claim that the Bible is God's inerrant, absolute word. Is this truth or arrogance? In God's Choice, Alan Peshkin offers readers the opportunity to consider this question in depth. Given the outsider's rare chance to observe such a school firsthand, Peshkin spent eighteen months studying Bethany's high school--interviewing students, parents, and educators, living in the home of Bethany Baptist Church members, and participating fully in the church's activities. From this intimate research he has fashioned a…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.91" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface



Introduction The Setting, the Author, the Times



""Blessed Assurance"" The Dictates of Doctrine



The King's Witnesses Called to Teach



The Structure of Control Until the Love of Christ Constraineth



Bethany's Didactic Milieu A Match for the Devil's Darts



Bethany's Deviance Schooling for Sprituality



By Their Fruits The Impact of Orthodoxy



By Their Fruits Four Student Portraits



In Satan's Clutches Bethany's Scorners



Bethany's Total Institution Truth's Organizational Structure