I have been a participant observer in this story for a long time, and I feel accountable for how things have turned out, so please allow me to give an account. 1 In this invited essay, CSR’s officers have asked me to reflect not on the career of their journal, but more broadly on how the Christian scholars’ movements have fared since then and how they might address the daunting challenges that they face today. It was to be devoted, they agreed, to Christian thought and scholarship, and to the theoretical concerns of Christian higher education. In May of 1970, representatives from fifteen northern evangelical liberal arts colleges met at Wheaton College to form a journal, the Christian Scholar’s Review. Joel Carpenter is a historian and former provost at Calvin College, and is currently senior research fellow and founding director of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin University. Henry lecture and plenary address at the “Living Accountably” symposium on Faith and Culture at Baylor University in October 2021 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Christian Scholar’s Review. A prior version of this essay was delivered as the Carl F.
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