If the Bible is the word of God, containing everything necessary for man's salvation, higher education should consist of little more than studying it. This kind of reasoning produced that formidable 19th century institution, the Bible college, in which fundamentalist fervor was the school spirit, Darwin's was the team to beat, and the professor who knew his stuff was the man who could find the applicable verse in the Good Book. In this secularist midcentury, academic acceptance of the Bible college has declined toward the vanishing point. But this month marks the centennial...
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