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Taylor University: The First 150 Years, William C. Ringenberg

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"It is difficult to see any need for Taylor during its first years," the author contends. The sparsely populated state of Indiana in 1846 already had several Protestant colleges and a state university, and each of these institutions professed a Christian philosophical orientation. But the need for the school "up beyond the village border" soon became clear.

The intellectual revolution at the turn-of-the-century cracked the spiritual foundations of major universities and even many church-related colleges, and it caused the Christian world view to lose its place of dominance.

The subsequent de-humanizing of education and the inability of secular higher education …