Conservative Protestants often assume that there was a time when American higher education was controlled by Christian saints, but whose legacy was lost via the slippery slope of secularization. Sawatsky writes that it is time to set aside this myth of declension and to celebrate the vibrant reality of contemporary Christian scholarship. The vocation of the Christian scholar is to seek wisdom as part of “a community of pilgrims on a journey into a hope-filled future.”
Keywords: Christian scholarship, Christian vocation, hope, myth of declension, secularization, slippery slope, wisdom,