White Suggests Divinity Schools Teach All Views

A plan for a divinity school which would "emulate the freedom, diversity, and habits of controversy which characterize the rest of a great secular university" was announced today by professor Morton G. White, Chairman of the Philosophy Department in the last issue of Confluence magazine.

"Why not conceive of a divinity school," White said, "in which professors would expound Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism and some of the less popular religions," and also where "atheists and agnostics would expound their views."

White made it clear that such a divinity school is only a utopian concept. Historical reasons make it impossible for universities and divinity schools established or endowed under specific religious auspices.

In his own department, said White, "the philosopher's only commitment is to the pursuit of truth and understanding of certain topics. My proposal for an ideal divinity school is that its philosophers be granted the same degree of freedom."