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...provide much-needed intellectual guidance for Evangelical Protestants. The magazine's urbane image suffered this year when it moved from downtown Washington, D.C., to Carol Stream, Ill., in part to be closer to the conservative Protestant heartland. Nonetheless, it has just chosen a new editor, Kenneth S. Kantzer, who comes equipped with a Harvard Ph.D. Says he: "Great ideas don't have to be incomprehensible...
...Kantzer, 60, an Evangelical Free Church clergyman, has led Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois as it has grown from 35 to 450 full-time students. He staunchly defends the idea that the Bible is wholly without error. Thi tenet is included in a creed that the magazine's board adopted last year, and retiring Editor Harold Lindsell has written a controversial book (TIME, May 10, 1976) assailing Evangelicals with less rigorous views...
...five conservative schools are meeting their budgets, despite high expansion costs and the lack of sizable endowments. In addition, academic standards, traditionally lower at evangelical seminaries, are markedly improving. Gordon-Conwell's entering students average 3.2 on the grade-point scale. At Trinity Evangelical, Dean Kenneth Kantzer points to the school's higher admissions standards and increased number of faculty doctorates-along with an enrollment that has rocketed from 31 students in 1962 to 600 this year...
...Evangelicals shun the label-and company-of fundamentalists who would insist that every comma in the Bible is divinely inspired, stand closest theologically to Billy Graham. The leading Evangelical theologians include Dr. Carl Henry, editor of Christianity Today, Cornelius Van Til of Westminster Theological Seminary, and Dean Kenneth S. Kantzer of the Trinity Evangelical School at Deerfield, Ill. They use the tools of modern Biblical scholarship, and read such progressive theologians as Rudolf Bultmann and Reinhold Niebuhr. But the Evangelicals insist that nothing is outdated about the traditional theological language of the church, or about belief in the Bible...
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