The Problem of Free Inquiry in Baptist Institutions of Higher Education‪.‬

Academic freedom appeared with a new conceptualization in early twentieth-century America. It was formed by the forces of secularism, professionalization, and evolutionary science, and Baptists disagreed about how to react to the new concept just as they disagreed about how to react to those forces. Their disagreements involved clashes between two sets of dispositions that had achieved an informal harmony in the mid-nineteenth century. That harmony splintered, and Baptist education has ever since been at odds with itself and American educational society over how to construe academic freedom. (1)