Society, State, & Schools: A Case for Structural and Confessional Pluralism

by Rockne McCarthy, Donald Oppewal, Walfred Peterson, Gordon Spykman
Wm. B. Eerdmans (1981)
Paperback, 225 pages
 

Two things seem clear. First our American society continues to go thumping along from crisis to cris. Second, increasingly these crises relate directly to the very structures of our society and of the state. A sound index to the structural distress of our society and state is our system of schooling. The crisis is real -- in our society and its schools. At the center stands the state; at stake is a host of social structures.

A growing body of literature is focusing public attention on these issues. This study embraces and significantly extends the conclusions of a series fo such social studies.

Praise for the book

"...a masterful statement of theological, philosophical, and political argument which can advance the empowerment of all Americans in our pluralistic society." -- Richard John Neuhaus

"In its advocacy of multiple educational systems, this study applies to schools the principle of tolerance of pluralistic worldviews that now prevails in state and society and that once prevailed in American learning. The study strikes hard against any quasi-official monopolistic view transmitted by the state...It should be read for its reflection on many of hte important decisions that currently face American educational policy." -- Carl F.H. Henry