Whither Wheaton? Debating the Flagship's Next Captain

January 25th, 2010 | 5 min read

Soma Review has a fascinating examination of former President Duane Liftin's tenure at Wheaton, which many people regard as the flagship of evangelicalism (a mantle, I sometimes provocatively argue, that has been passed on to other schools).

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.

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Whither Wheaton? Debating the Flagship's Next Captain

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