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Koers

versión On-line ISSN 2304-8557
versión impresa ISSN 0023-270X

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DIEDERICKS, Morné  y  DIEDERICKS, Magdalena Catharina. The Idea of a "For-Profit" Private Christian University in South Africa. Koers (Online) [online]. 2019, vol.84, n.1, pp.1-14. ISSN 2304-8557.  http://dx.doi.org/10.19108/koers.84.1.2449.

The one-sided focus of Christian higher education in South Africa on the field of theology ana the lack of integrating faith and learning in other subjects emphasizes the need for a Christian university in South Africa. The question addressed in this article is whether a Christian university can also be for-profit, considering the fact that all Christian private higher education institutions in South Africa are non-profit. There are numerous criticisms against for-profit higher education institutions. The greatest of these are that for-profit private higher education institutions miss the purpose of what it means to be a university and that profitable higher education institutions exploit students. The church also has numerous criticisms of the profit motive, but from the Bible it is clear that there are two lines of thought regarding profit. The one is that profit is dangerous and that it easily becomes an idol; the other is that people are called to be profitable. This article concludes that there is room for a for-profit Christian higher education institution in South Africa. This for-profit Christian higher education institution should be imagined in terms of its understanding of profit regarding its mission, students, faculty and governance

Palabras clave : Christian higher education; Governance; Faculty; For-profit; Mission; Non-profit; Profit.

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