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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
At Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., the Christianity preached by religious right figures such as Jerry Falwell is rejected?becase it is too liberal. Three generations of Bob Joneses have run this militantly fundamentalist and separatist institution, passing the role of university president from father to son. Dalhouse, who teaches history at Truman State University (formerly Northeast Missouri State University), draws on extensive primary sources to tell the story of BJU, and then places this story in the broader context of American evangelicalism and fundamentalism. He highlights the curiosities of the school (strict parietals for students, including bans on kissing and holding hands; an honorary doctorate awarded to segregationist Alabama governor George C. Wallace) along with its achievements (students' acceptance rate into recognized graduate schools and their success in business careers; a film production program that can claim a Cannes Film Festival award). He also shows how BJU has promoted a strict doctrine of separatism from theological liberalism, and has attacked even attempts by conservative Protestants to make common cause with conservative Catholics and Jews. The only great flaw is that the book is so short?there is clearly much more to say about BJU and its place as the self-anointed guardian of U.S. fundamentalism.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
University officials granted Dalhouse (Truman State Univ.) unprecedented access to their resources. The resulting work approaches its subject in a dispassionate, neutral manner. It is as much a portrait of the ultra-fundamentalist patriarchs Bob Jones Sr., Jr., and III as of their institution. They insist on total separation from almost all other Christians, including Jerry Falwell and former student Billy Graham, both of whom collaborate with Mormons and conservative Catholics. School discipline approaches "in loco parentis in extremis." The Greenville, South Carolina-based university has strong programs in cinema, education, and business but refuses to submit itself to the accreditation review by outsiders. Evolution cannot be taught, but Dalhouse does not discuss the school's approach to other sciences equally troubling to biblical literalists, such as cosmology or paleontology. In a straightforward, unremarkable work, Dalhouse offers a useful discussion of a little-known subject. Recommeded for specialized library collections.?Richard S. Watts, San Bernardino Cty. Lib., Cal.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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At Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., the Christianity preached by religious right figures such as Jerry Falwell is rejected?becase it is too liberal. Three generations of Bob Joneses have run this militantly fundamentalist and separatist institution, passing the role of university president from father to son. Dalhouse, who teaches history at Truman State University (formerly Northeast Missouri State University), draws on extensive primary sources to tell the story of BJU, and then places this story in the broader context of American evangelicalism and fundamentalism. He highlights the curiosities of the school (strict parietals for students, including bans on kissing and holding hands; an honorary doctorate awarded to segregationist Alabama governor George C. Wallace) along with its achievements (students' acceptance rate into recognized graduate schools and their success in business careers; a film production program that can claim a Cannes Film Festival award). He also shows how BJU has promoted a strict doctrine of separatism from theological liberalism, and has attacked even attempts by conservative Protestants to make common cause with conservative Catholics and Jews. The only great flaw is that the book is so short?there is clearly much more to say about BJU and its place as the self-anointed guardian of U.S. fundamentalism.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
University officials granted Dalhouse (Truman State Univ.) unprecedented access to their resources. The resulting work approaches its subject in a dispassionate, neutral manner. It is as much a portrait of the ultra-fundamentalist patriarchs Bob Jones Sr., Jr., and III as of their institution. They insist on total separation from almost all other Christians, including Jerry Falwell and former student Billy Graham, both of whom collaborate with Mormons and conservative Catholics. School discipline approaches "in loco parentis in extremis." The Greenville, South Carolina-based university has strong programs in cinema, education, and business but refuses to submit itself to the accreditation review by outsiders. Evolution cannot be taught, but Dalhouse does not discuss the school's approach to other sciences equally troubling to biblical literalists, such as cosmology or paleontology. In a straightforward, unremarkable work, Dalhouse offers a useful discussion of a little-known subject. Recommeded for specialized library collections.?Richard S. Watts, San Bernardino Cty. Lib., Cal.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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