Explores the decline in religious influence in American universities, discussing why this transformation has occurred.

The essayist, critic, novelist, short story writer, and biographer presents 203 essays on such writers as Gibbon, Cervantes, Balzac, Flaubert, Woolf, Shaw, Twai

"We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul."—Robert Musil Best known as author of the novel The M

The Soul of the American University is a classic and much discussed account of the changing roles of Christianity in shaping American higher education, presente