William C. Ringenberg

Keeping the Soul in Christian Higher Education

History & Biography

“This intellectual history of Roanoke College is a model case study of how one institution, born in the wake and spirit of the Second Great Awakening, moved from orthodoxy toward secularism and now finds itself in a conflict between these two impulses. Robert Benne, who possesses a masterful understanding of typology in church-related higher education, argues compellingly that Roanoke—and by inference all church-related colleges—should provide an assured ‘place at the table’ for the Christian worldview.”