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Middle Ground

其他書名	Bob Jones University and the Evolution of Separation
出版	1995
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gkqs0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋For anyone familiar with modern-day fundamentalism, it would be difficult to imagine a time when separation was not the hallmark of the movement. Likewise, anyone familiar with Bob Jones University might have difficulty imagining a time when the school was not on the cutting edge of the separation issue. But if history has any immutable laws, one of the foremost would be this: Institutions were not always exactly as they appear today. Inclusivism, unionism, interdenominationalism -- these are words that few would immediately associate with Bob Jones University in the 1990s. This remarkable evolution raises at least two important questions: First, what transpired in the intervening years to move BJU to the forefront of separatist fundamentalism? Second, and perhaps more important, there is the question of "Who blinked?" If the university's position seems different today than it did in 1927, does that indicate a change in the school's founding principles or does it rather indicate an attempt to apply these principles in a changing religious environment? The Graham controversy has often been cited as the turning point, not only for BJU, but for many other fundamentalists as well. The problem with that thesis, however, is that there was another major instance of separation at Bob Jones University that predated the Graham affair by about seven years. Though it lacked the high profile of the 1957 controversy, it seems to have been just as wrenching for university officials. --