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The Future Of The UniversityAn attempt to view the barriers we face in going where we want to go. "Distance education is a remarkable mutation or transformation in the university system, which we want to take full advantage of..."
By Ralph D. Winter, General Director, Frontier Mission Fellowship Monday Missiology Discussion; 7 Dec 98 Edited and Condensed by Keith SwiftEvery few days it seems like another Christian college proclaims itself a university. They could not have done that 100 years ago. They didn't. They didn't even call themselves colleges, although all 157 Bible institutes are now colleges or universities. They could have done that in the first place; they didn't. Why not? Because they didn't know what they were doing. They did not realize the power of culture and the strategy of contextualization within it. All of this is to say that Evangelicals in particular have misunderstood and underrated the value of the university pattern. It has taken them 100 year to get back to it, obviously they were pretty far off the beaten track for the last hundred years. No wonder Mark Noll has a book entitled The Scandal of The Evangelical Mind. As a result Evangelicals, of course, have not gotten into politics nor into university structures until very recently. How can you go as a professor from a Bible school to a university? You can't. All the doors have been locked for a hundred years to the other divergent pattern. And, all that was what you would call a mission strategy that went wrong, that refused to contextualize. But now, at last, Evangelicals are gradually and very slowly learning the importance of the university pattern. My first point is that Evangelicals have until this day, (and will perhaps for a long time to come) grossly underestimated the significance of the university pattern. This is a missionary subject, just as it was a missionary subject for the Jesuits in China in the 16th Century to switch their approach from that of the Buddhist cultural tradition, when they discovered that it was despised, to the mandarin, scholarly tradition. They found they could choose either one. Up to now, I've talked about trial and error in the United States, but if you look at the rest of the world, the case is even more powerful. Universities have very little influence in this country compared to what they have in other countries. Thus, for missionaries to go overseas ill-prepared to recognize the value of the university has been a terrible thing. In any case the binge-drinking, the debauchery, the artificiality, the fact that schools take people out of their families, take them out of the work force, and for years at a time postpone marriage and the responsibility that marriage would otherwise bring, is just a very, very sick pattern, and Americans are very slow to realize it, Evangelicals as well. Because, why? I would hope that what we do here in this university would be to perform functions that are valid and useful without succumbing to the harmful patterns that are riddling our university world today. I think we can do it, but not unless we gain clear understanding about what is defective about the present cultural tradition we call our school system. As it is, our young people come out of college with false over-confidence. They have been stratified for years. They have delayed responsibilities. They grew up more slowly than in any other country in the world. It's really a sad, sad situation, and unless we understand that fact we are not going to be able to do any better. We didn't start this university to ape a cultural tradition as defective as what we see. I am not referring to boozing and spiritual failure in Christian colleges. I am referring to the simple fact that college as we know it does not allow young people to be integrated into society - they are held out as surely in Christian school as in any secular university. These are my four proposals in terms of what we need to know in order to be able to understand the kind of university we ought to become. The first one is that the university is a substantial reality around the world. The second one is that we haven't really begun to think about what it is that the Kingdom of God is supposed to be - the kingdom that we are supposed to help to come! Three, we have no idea how harmful the present university and school pattern in general actually is. And then, fourthly, Evangelicals are very slow to realize the ally they have in science and its various dimensions. Q&A: Greg Parsons: Plus, if you're going to raise the kind of money that is going to be needed, donors have to trust the ones they're giving it to - that you are going to do what the money is intended for. Russ Shubin: Any time that I see something diverge from the cultural norm of the existing university pattern, it has met with a lot of opposition and sometimes even less than credibility. RDW: I think it's pretty obvious that we're walking a delicate tightrope between slavishly following an existing (and deficient) pattern and getting lost in the process, and on the other hand, taking full advantage of the values of that pattern and not being overcome by its weaknesses. Distance education is a remarkable mutation or transformation in the university system, which we want to take full advantage of. In other words, we want to use the very best and the latest good things in the university tradition and leave out the binges and all the other stupidities. We have monumental cultural patterns to fight all the time, and as good missionaries we have no desire to syncretize (which means to go completely over to these worldly patterns), but yet we have to build in terms that make sense to people. So, what I am saying is - I really have one point obviously, not four - that we are in deep darkness about realities. And unless we get much more familiar with these four dimensions, we won't be able to understand even what the university should be like, even if we saw it. By the same token, we also cannot, will not, be able to recognize the university we need to be, even if we saw it - unless we can get over and beyond such deep-rooted, typical misunderstandings as I have outlined in these four dimensions. But it is a fact that a lot of things done in the university tradition we have no interest in whatsoever. We want to be absolutely able to rethink every single facet of our society, including the university, including the school system, including the churches, including everything else. Otherwise we simply have Satan constantly deceiving us, teaching us all kinds of things that aren't true. Think different. If Apple can do it, so can we. |
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