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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
Eldon Jay Epp (born 1930) is an American New Testament scholar and textual critic.. Epp studied at Wheaton College (Bachelor of Arts, 1952), Fuller Theological Seminary (Bachelor of Divinity, 1955), Harvard University (Master of Sacred Theology; 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, 1961).
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.
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.
Bruce Ellis Benson (born 1960) is a professor of philosophy at Wheaton College in Illinois. [1] Publications. Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, ...
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.
Larycia Alaine Hawkins (born August 22, 1972) is an American scholar, author, and speaker, who in 2013, became the first female African-American tenured professor at Wheaton College, a Christian Protestant liberal arts college. There she served as an associate professor of political science.
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 ...