The proposal by CHRISTIANITY TODAY for establishment of an Institute of Advanced Christian Studies is stimulating interest and debate among evangelical educators. Influential Christian leaders are endorsing the plan, but some express reservations. The proposal (see May 13 issue, page 28) calls for a center of evangelical research and writing to advance Christian truth in the modern academic milieu. Highly qualified scholars related to the institute might later become the graduate faculty core of a Christian university, but this development is not essential to the project. Ideally, the institute would be located near an outstanding secular campus. It could begin operating as early as the fall of 1967 or 1968, if support is mustered...
Such a development, adds Dr. Gordon H. Clark, is “long overdue.” Clark, chairmen of the philosophy department at Butler University, believes that “the problems of establishing another liberal arts college would be gigantic. An Institute of Advanced Christian Studies is obviously more feasible, and, in view of the actual opposition to Christian scholarship in secular universities, much more needed.”
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