A recent paper for the Jubilee Center, a Christian think-tank based in the UK, has proposed establishing Christian universities in Britain on the model of such American Christian colleges as Wheaton. The Times reports:
An American-style Christian university where students study the Bible alongside mainstream arts and humanities subjects should be set up in Britain, according to an academic paper published by a leading Christian think-tank.
The UK has higher education institutions with religious foundations, such as many Oxbridge colleges. And some religious colleges have courses that are acredited by secular universities. But there is no university in Britain that is run on dogmatically Christian lines.
Read more from the Times here. The Jubilee Center’s paper is here.
Daniel Vaca is the Robert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of Humanities at Brown University, where he teaches in the Department of Religious Studies. A historian of religion and culture in North America, he specializes in the relationship between religious and economic activity in the United States. His first book, Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America (Harvard, 2019) examines how evangelical ideas, identities, and alliances have developed through commercial strategy and corporate initiative. The co-chair of the American Academy of Religion's program unit on Religion and Economy, Daniel serves on the editorial board of The Immanent Frame.
