Bible Literacy Project News
University of Notre Dame
English professor Gerald Bruns assists biblical literacy study
By: Michael O. Garvey
Date: June 8, 2006
Gerald L. Bruns, William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of
English at the University of Notre Dame, was among 39 English
professors at leading universities participating in a recent
national survey on biblical literacy sponsored by the John Templeton
Foundation.
The survey report, “What University Professors Say Incoming Students
Need to Know,” was released last week at Baylor University during an
academic symposium on the Bible. It revealed what its author, Marie
Wachlin, described as a “striking” unanimity of conviction that
knowledge of the Bible is indispensable to a good education and
that, in addition to being a sacred text for millions of Americans,
it is also, as one participant put it the “most influential text in
all of Western culture.”
“You can’t really study western literature intelligently or
coherently without starting with the Bible,” according to Bruns.
“You’re simply ignorant of yourself if you don’t know the Bible.”
Survey participants included representatives from all of the
top-ranked schools in the 2005 U.S. News & World Report survey,
“America’s Best Colleges.”
Copyright 2006 University of Notre Dame.
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