http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/comment/story/0,,2092904,00.html
[Guardian Unlimited] 2 June 2007--Giles Fraser's comment column on Wycliffe Hall challenges our integrity, claiming that the hall is part of a "new wave of reactionary evangelicalism", and that "it has no love in its heart for the values of learning" (Not faith, but fanaticism, May 29).
Wycliffe Hall is a permanent private hall of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1877 for the training of "godly ministers" for the Church of England within the evangelical tradition. Giles referred to Wycliffe "drawing upon a long-standing tradition of evangelical anti-intellectualism", and said "the low esteem in which many evangelicals hold academic inquiry is a function of fear". This comment lacks the very academic rigour the author complains is missing from evangelical scholars. The faculty at Wycliffe has a long record of academic publication, with a regular flow of books and articles and our students winning multiple university prizes.
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