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Wheaton College was founded in 1860. Its predecessor, the Illinois Institute, had been founded in late 1853 by Wesleyan Methodists as a college and preparatory school. . Wheaton's first president, Jonathan Blanchard, was a former president of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and a staunch abolitionist with ties to Oberlin Co
OneWheaton first organized in response to Wheaton College's chapel series titled "Sexuality and Wholeness" [2] —which included a message stating that following Jesus and living in a same-sex relationship are incompatible goals [3] —and the seminar "Same-Sex Marriage Affects Everyone"—which hypothesized that allowing same-sex marriage would lead to families abandoning their children, men ...
Leland Ryken (born May 17, 1942) is professor emeritus of English at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. [1] He has contributed a number of works to the study of classic literature from the Christian perspective, [2] including editing the comprehensive volume on Christian writing on literature The Christian Imagination.
Jacobs earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alabama in 1980 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Virginia in 1987. [3] He was the Clyde S. Kilby chair professor of English at Wheaton College (Illinois) until 2012 when his hiring to Baylor was widely noted as part of the competition between these two Christian colleges.
Emerson would go on to receive the Valeria Knapp Award from The College Club of Boston in 1987 for establishing the Global Awareness Program at Wheaton College. [16] Wheaton celebrated its Sesquicentennial in 1984/85 with a year-long series of symposia, concerts, dance performances, art and history exhibits, and an endowment and capital campaign.
Michael D. C. Drout (/ d r aʊ t /; born 1968) is an American Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of the Medieval at Wheaton College.He is an author and editor specializing in Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature, science fiction and fantasy, especially the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin.
Niel B. Nielson, BA philosophy, 1976 – former president of Covenant College; Mark Noll, BA English – professor of history at University of Notre Dame; Phil Ryken, BA English literature and philosophy, 1988 – former pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church and current president of Wheaton College; Daniel W. Smith, BA literature
Bruce Ellis Benson (born 1960) is a professor of philosophy at Wheaton College in Illinois. [1] Publications. Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, ...