Christian group calls for a Christian university in Britain

An American-style Christian university where students study the Bible alongside mainstream arts and humanities subjects should be set up in Britain, according to an academic paper published by a leading Christian think-tank.

The UK has higher education institutions with religious foundations, such as many Oxbridge colleges. And some religious colleges have courses that are acredited by secular universities. But there is no university in Britain that is run on dogmatically Christian lines.

In a paper for the Jubilee Centre, Nigel Paterson, an English lecturer at Winchester university, admits there can be problems with Christian univerisities. Any such scheme, even if privately funded, would be hotly opposed by the nation's atheists such as Oxford don Professor Richard Dawkins.

But Dr Paterson argues that Christian universities have their place in higher education and that a country with a well-established Christian community would be "enriched" by the presence of at least two or three Christian universities, where students would use the Bible as a work of reference in all courses.

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