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

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Discussing the Meaning of Life

Christian humanism and the rise of the medieval university

The University of Paris developed a model copied by many schools

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

A cascading failure to meet the common good

How Wittenberg helped spread Protestant reform

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

European colleges and universities

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

Colleges and universities from around the world

The University’s post-Enlightenment transformation

 Berlin and the modern research university

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

John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University

Oberlin College and Christian social reform

Fundamentalist heritage and the evangelical mind at Wheaton College

 College revivals

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

Is something missing from the modern university?

Christians in higher education

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