The
Transformation of the Church
~ A Database of
Historical and Current Data on the Strategic Partnerships &
Control over Christian Educational Institutions
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and
being deceived.
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been
assured of,
knowing of whom thou hast learned them. II Timothy
3:13-14
“Public
confidence is the essence of these things; once you’ve got that you can do
anything.”
~ Augustus Melmotte,
laughing about his fraudulent scheme—the Southern Central Pacific and Mexican
Railway.
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Overview of the organizations
which control Christian educational institutions:
Rockefeller
Brothers FUND for Theological Education
Association of
Theological Schools
Pew Charitable Trusts
grants to Christian Education
Council of Christian
Colleges & Universities
Campus Crusade
Christian Leadership Ministries
Institute of
Theological Studies
International
Institute for Christian Studies
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Rockefeller
Brothers FUND for Theological Education / THE FUND/FTE
“The Fund for
Theological Education was established in the early 1950s as a response to a
perceived crisis in Protestant theological education.”
Supported by individuals
and grants from a group of U.S. foundations…
Visit our staff at
the Luce Center in Atlanta, Georgia, a facility that also houses the offices of
the American Academy of Religion [AAR Steering Committee includes: Gordon
Melton, see Ministries to NU Religions, CESNUR], the Society of Biblical Literature, and the
American Schools of Oriental Research…
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Association of Theological Schools/ATS—Rockefeller-affiliated agency for
accrediting seminaries, since 1936
Supported by
individuals and grants from a group of U.S. foundations including:
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Rockefeller Brothers Fund for Theological
Education/The Fund
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Lilly Endowment, Inc.
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Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
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William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Grants offered/available to ATS members include:
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Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies
The Gates Foundation is
represented on the CCCU/Council for Christian Colleges & Universities Advisory
Board See CCCU below
The Gates Foundation
is a major donor to the United Nation’s family planning programs/population
control [UNFPA/United Nations Population Fund].
Bill & Melinda
Gates’ Landmark Gift to Population Control
“The Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation and the International Planned Parenthood Federation
announce $8.9 million grant to improve women's health. A grant of $8,865,000
will go towards improving reproductive health care services to women around the
world through International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) programmes, it
was announced today. The fund, from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
will be spread over five years.” - IPPF Press Release, London, 11 December 2000
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Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion
Press release: “Leading religion
prize, among the world's largest, honors discoveries and breakthroughs in
expanding perceptions about divinity. A news conference to announce the 2002
Templeton Prize will be held on Thursday, March 14 at 11:00 AM at the Church
Center for the United Nations… in New York City. The prize each year is awarded
to a living individual who has shown extraordinary originality in research or
discoveries to advance understanding of God and spiritual realities.…”
Awarded to Chuck Colson at the
World Parliament of Religions, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago
Divinity School, 1993.
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Human Genome Research Institute, NIH [HGRI director Francis Collins is on the John Templeton Foundation
advisory board]
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Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies,
Jerusalem
Tantur [established
by Pope Paul VI] is the Vatican’s dialogue center for “Christian unity”
Orgs with ATS Affiliate
Status––includes:
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Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
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Institute of Buddhist Studies
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Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences
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John Templeton Foundation—merging
science & religion
Ties and inter-connections:
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Francis Collins, member of the John
Templeton Foundation advisory board; director of the Human Genome Research
Institute, NIH; genetic engineering; speaker at the C.S. Lewis Institute and
whose article justifying genetic research/cloning is featured on the Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity/CBHD [Nigel Cameron & John Kilner] web site. See: Spiritual Counterfeits Project, Part II
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John
Marx Templeton, Jr. [son of Sir John Marx
Templeton], Princeton Theological Seminary Board of Trustees Emeriti/ae The PTS seminary is the site of Templeton Hall;
Trustee of the National Bible Association/National Bible Week in partnership
with American Bible Society, United Bible Society, First Amendment
Foundation-FAF/Freedom Forum-FF [founded by John Siegenthaler, founding editor
of USA Today; FAF/FF spawned the
ecumenical Williamsburg Charter]
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David B.
Larson, member of the John Templeton Foundation
advisory board; M.D. Psychiatrist and former senior fellow at the
National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH); currently the president of the
National Institute for Healthcare research; his prison research projects are
funded by the Templeton Foundation and often done in partnership with Prison
Fellowship/PF [NGO of the UN founded and directed by Chuck Colson, a member of
the secret Council for National Policy/CNP and a Contributing Editor of Christianity Today]; Wilberforce Forum [AF dean is
Nigel Cameron––Christianity
Today, Contributing Editor] is an
initiative of Colson’s Prison Fellowship/Justice Fellowship; Wilberforce Forum
is in partnership with the Council on
Christian Colleges and Universities/CCCU; both Nigel Cameron and Chuck Colson
serve on the CCCU/Council for Christian Colleges and Universities advisory
board. See CCCU below
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Martin E. Marty, member of the John
Templeton Foundation advisory board; Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health,
Faith, and Ethics; University of Chicago Divinity School––Martin Marty Center;
former founding director of the Pew-funded Institute for the Advanced Study of
Religion/Yale U.; past president of the American Academy
of Religion/AAR is located at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
for Theological Education/Luce Center, Atlanta, Georgia; Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity [supported by undisclosed corporations & foundations] CBDH Advisory Board Chair Nigel Cameron and CBHD President John
Kilner; Kilner was formerly at The Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health,
Faith, and Ethics with Martin E. Marty.
CESNUR’s Gordon
Melton is on the AAR Steering Committee funded by the Rockefeller Foundation
and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
See Ministries to NU
Religions, CESNUR [Massimo Introvigne, Gordon Melton, Eileen Barker/London
School of Economics-LSE] and EMNR/Evangelical Ministries to New
Religions––Gordon Melton EMNR 2002 Conference speaker
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Laurance S. Rockefeller, member of the John
Templeton Foundation advisory board
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John Russell, member of the John Templeton
Foundation advisory board; founder of the Templeton-affiliated CTNS/Center for
Theology and Natural Sciences. Graduate Union Theological University, Berkeley;
ongoing collaborative research with the Vatican Observatory
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Ted Peters, Ph.D. Professor of Systematic
Theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological
Union, Berkeley. He is an active participant at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences,
where he directs the CTNS-Templeton University Lectures and the CTNS-Templeton
Science and Religion Course Program. Dr. Peters was
principal investigator for the theological questions raised by the human genome
initiative study sponsored by the Human Genome Initiative.
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Nancy Murphy, member of the John Templeton
Foundation advisory board; professor of Christian philosophy at Fuller
Theological Seminary; involved with the Templeton-affiliated CTNS/Center for Theology and Natural
Sciences [Berkeley]
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Stephen G. Post, member of the John Templeton Foundation advisory board; his
doctorate in religious ethics and moral philosophy from the University of
Chicago Divinity School
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Thomas W. Gillespie, member of the John
Templeton Foundation advisory board; president of the Princeton Theological
Seminary
Many of
Rockefeller-affiliated Assn. of Theological Schools/ATS-member seminaries host
the numerous debates and roundtable discussions, lead by representatives from
John Templeton Foundation’s Speaker’s Bureau––the so-called “ethicists.”
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Foster
Friess, member of the John Templeton
Foundation advisory board; executive committee of the Council for National Policy/CNP
and Advisory of the Royal Swedish Academy which issues the Nobel Prize in
chemistry & physics
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Glenn R.
Mosley, member of the John Templeton
Foundation advisory board; Association of Unity Churches
Previously listed as
a Trustee for the National Bible Week/National Bible Association
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Kenneth
Giniger, member of the John Templeton
Foundation advisory board; Trustee of the National Bible Week/ National
Bible Association
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Dr. Philip Hefner, member of the John Templeton Foundation advisory board;
Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Religion and Science/CCRS and is
Editor-in-Chief of CCRS’s Zygon Journal
of Religion and Science
See Ministries to NU
Religions, EMNR/Evangelical Ministries to New Religions, Eric Pement, EMNR
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Elizabeth Peale, member of the John
Templeton Foundation advisory board; Chairman of the Board of the Positive
Thinking Foundation
Husband Norman
Vincent Peale [deceased] was a 33º Freemason and an associate of 33º Freemason, Robert Schuller.
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Rev. Arthur Peacocke, member of the John
Templeton Foundation advisory board; director of the Templeton–funded Ian
Ramsey Centre, Oxford University
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Keith Ward, Advisory Board of the John Templeton
Foundation; professor of divinity , Oxford University
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John Barrow, member of the John Templeton
Foundation advisory board; professor of mathematical sciences, Cambridge
University
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Jeffrey Schloss, member of the John
Templeton Foundation advisory board; fellow Discovery Institute Center for the
Renewal of Science and Culture/CRSC; recipient of Templeton grants
Discovery Institute
is tied to Hudson Institute, Council on Foreign Relation/CFR, RAND Corporation,
Council on National Policy/CNP/Heritage Foundation/Edwin Meese, William D.
Ruckleshaus/CFR and Christian apologetic organizations –– Campus
Crusade/Leadership U/William Lane Craig, Christian Research
Institute/CRI/Contributing Editors Francis J. Beckwith/J.P. Moreland and
EMNR/Evangelical Ministries to New Religions/Sacred Tribes/Phillip E. Johnson,
friend of Spiritual Counterfeits Project Tal Brooke
Templeton
Honors College and THC Advisory Council at Eastern College
Now Eastern
University in partnership with World Vision.
United Kingdom…
CARTS––Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies
"…cooperation
with other faculties, universities and organisations in all parts of the world…
The current faculty includes members of the Church of England, Roman
Catholic and Free Churches, a Jewish Rabbi and a Muslim." Funded by
Pew Charitable Trusts.
CART’s World
Christianity Project in partnership with:
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IEGTE/ Institute for Excellence in Global Theological Education––
Mobilizing a network of
international schools of theology
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Eastern College’s Centers: (now Eastern
University in partnership with World Vision)
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SILD/School of International Leadership and Development [James Engels]
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DAI/Development Associates International, Eastern College [James Engels]
James Engels is a Christianity Today, Advisory
Editor
Director: Arthur R. Peacocke, advisory board of
the John Templeton Foundation
Center of the Counter-Reformation in England
“This
program exemplifies the mission of the Council for Christian Colleges &
Universities” See CCCU below
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Zacharias Trust
a.k.a., Ravi Zacharias International Ministries/RZIM
Associate member of
the World Evangelical
Fellowship
"Shaping Evangelical Mission Theology and Strategy"
OCMS's journal Transformation
Opportunities International, Inc. [Vinay
Samuels]––the INFMET corporate connection
See: TOC Database: Oxford
Centre for Mission Studies
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Pew Charitable Trusts grants to
Christian Education
Pew grant to Council for Christian Colleges &
Universities/CCCU & Center for Public Justice––CIVITAS Program
Pew’s Young Scholars Program
[University of Notre Dame]
Ø
Council of Christian Colleges &
Universities/CCCU
Partnerships include:
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Templeton Foundation
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Wilberforce Forum
CCCU oversight includes
representation from:
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Christianity
Today staff members
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American Bible Society/ABS
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World Vision
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Wilberforce Forum
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Kellogg Foundation
CCCU-affiliated programs includes:
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World Magazine’s World Journalism Institute/WJI
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organizations represented include:
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USA
Today
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CNN News
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United Press
Int’l/UPI [owned by Sun Myung Moon]
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Washington
Times [owned by Sun Myung Moon]
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Wall
Street Journal–– John Fund [associate of the
Heritage Foundation]
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CCCU’s
Institute of Journalism–– Terry Mattingly
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Tyndale
House [publishers of the Living Bible / Living Translation]––
Deborah Beisner
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Knox
Theological Seminary [founder and chancellor D. James Kennedy/CNP]–– E.
Calvin Beisner [formerly at Christian circa 1990;
brother of CRI’s Gretchen Passantino]
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God's
World Publishing, Inc.–– Joel Belz, CEO
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Campus
Crusade’s Kings College––Bill Bright/CNP
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Ethics
and Public Policy Center/EPPC–– Michael Cromartie
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Ethics
and Public Policy Center/EPPC––David Aikman
Ÿ Capital Research Center and Concordia University––Gene Edward Veith [friend