Colleges and universities from around the world

Learn more about Christianity and higher education with these resources selected by Christian History’s authors and editors.

Christians in higher education

Is something missing from the modern university?

Christian bearers of the liberal arts tradition from the Middle Ages to the present

 College revivals

Fundamentalist heritage and the evangelical mind at Wheaton College

Oberlin College and Christian social reform

John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University

The Ivy league schools aimed for the common good of a new nation

 Berlin and the modern research university

The University’s post-Enlightenment transformation

This issue shares many stories about colleges and universities trying to pursue human flourishing. Here are a few to start you off.

Christians through the centuries have wrestled with how to educate moral and virtuous people. Here are some milestones along the way.

European colleges and universities

How Friedrichs University in Halle gave Europe a Pietist vision of the common good

How Wittenberg helped spread Protestant reform

A cascading failure to meet the common good

What was it like to study at Oxford and Cambridge in the Middle Ages?

The University of Paris developed a model copied by many schools

Christian humanism and the rise of the medieval university

Discussing the Meaning of Life

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