Pentecostal universities: Theory and history

Abstract

Although there are several types of university, the accepted ideal is of a unified institution, comprising several faculties, that allows for the teaching and renewal of human knowledge in its entirety. It is a university rather than a polytechnic; it is a campus where all the disciplines of human knowledge, each with their own faculty, may rub shoulders and absorb the breadth of what has been discovered in the past and, through research, transmit what the human race needs for the future. Since, in its ideal form the university deals in the currency of all human knowledge and therefore with the sciences and arts together, theology is included; indeed, in the Middle Ages, theology was the architectonic discipline under which all other forms of knowledge were arranged and coordinated, and the university itself was a faith community