02045n d#a2200121uc#4500 0052205 20260801073559.0 Estep, James Riley Verfasser aut Can a christian be a dean? Toward a theological approach to academic administration in christian higher education James Riley Estep S. 35 - 54 Faith learning integration is a distinctive concern of evangelical higher education. Regardless of how one may evaluate the effectiveness of Christian higher education's endeavor to integrate faith and learning, the focus of these endeavors has primarily been on the academic disciplines, Le, the curriculum or academic research. What has typically escaped notice in this concern is administration in Christian higher education. What is "Christian" about higher education administration in the Christian or Bible college? This presentation will attempt to apply a paradigm of faith-learning integration based on Niebuhr's Christ and Culture (1951) to the place and function of academic administration in institutions of Christian higher education. Based on a survey of the precedent literature and a 1998 99 study of academic deans in member institutions of the Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges (AABC), this presentation will provide direction toward a theologically informed approach to Christian academic administration. It will address the matter in seven sections: (1) Faith learning integration and Christian higher education; (2) The necessity of a theologically based academic administration in Christian higher education; (3) Theological foundations and frameworks for Christian higher education administration; (4) Theologically informed values in academic administration; (5) Theologically informed metaphors in academic administration; (6) Toward an integrated approach to academic administration in Christian higher education; and (7) Practical means of implementing a theologically informed approach to the deanship. 0052202 Christian Education Journal 44533 44533