Controversy
In the mid-1960s, the College experienced a break with one of its early supporters, Cornelius R. Stam. Stam was an early leader of the Grace Movement, an ardent fundamentalist, and the president of the Berean Bible Society, which to this day promotes Grace teaching and Bible study. He came into conflict with the president, Jack Dean, and one of its new faculty members, Dale DeWitt. Dean and DeWitt both had advanced degrees whereas Stam was in the Bible institute tradition. Stam accused Dean and DeWitt of "neo-evangelicalism" and of not giving the Grace distinctives their proper emphasis. Tensions between strong fundamentalists and more moderate elements of the College have persisted for decades, and other schools have sprung up as alternatives to the College. These schools are uniformly more fundamental and focused on "Grace" teaching than the College. Some of these other schools are the Berean Bible Institute and St. Louis Theological Seminary.
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