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Full Faith and Accreditation

Posted on August 11, 2014, 9:07 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

So I think there’s a good case to be made that the accrediting associations are state actors. And if I’m right about that, then it would be hard for accrediting associations to do what Penn Professor Peter Conn suggests, and de-accredit schools that require faculty to pledge a belief in the literal inerrancy of Scripture.

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