Christian University What?

What makes the Christian university a "Christian" one? I really do not know the answer to this. I suspect that if I was in the humanities, then I'd find it really easy to fall into the theologizing group where I want to reconstruct the discipline on some kind of allegedly biblical/Christian grounds, but because I'm in economics, I basically get pissed off at anyone who tells me to do that. It's like hearing someone say they're going to reconstruct physics on Christian grounds, as though the quarks are really different depending on your beliefs about God and Christ. Either they're real or not. Either the science is correctly done or its crap. I won't say this in the presence of one of these people, but I have the personal belief that if you are interested in that kind of reconstruction stuff, you either have too much time on your hands or you really are unable to do the real work at all. As a generalization, I think that's deadon accurate. Probably paints me as a close-minded idiot but I cannot stand it. Thankfully, my university is Christian but seems to be exiting that stuff at the same time. One of the things I've been hearing about lately, as to what makes the Christian university a Christian one, is this phrase I cannot get out of my head: "a community of beatitudes and friendships." Now that's something I can get behind. Here is a really interesting post from a guy who attended my denomination's college. Now one anecdote is not the singular of "data" so I don't want to make too much of this, but I think it comports with what I suspect is not an uncommon experience for students at Christian universities in some places.

Because the biggest problem facing my alma mater is the misconception that there's something special about the school or the place, when it's the people you can meet there. It's an understandable problem, but still a stupid one reflective of a mindset that building improvements will make a church better. And you can always tell who from the school gets it and who doesn't. Every year at homecoming, another senior citizen would address the daily convocation and say that of all the things they liked about our university, the chapel service is what they missed the most. And when I hear that, I always think: You didn't have any friends here, or anyway, not like mine, not like the ones you could have had."