HE knowledge explosion, the quest for excellence, and the necessity for research characterize higher education in America today. It has become clear that the sort of society developing in this country and throughout the world demands not simply a highly educated elite but a broadly educated populace if it is to continue its progress, cope with congestion, and meet the problems of dislocation and complexity. Moreover, there is a growing conviction that along with scientific and technological achievements there must be a simultaneous concern for humanization, lest the world that is evolving become completely inimical to personal and human values. This revolution in society has produced a new situation for the Protestant Church in America, and her adjustment to it has only begun. She is being rapidly disestablished from culture, her institutional forms are being challenged, and her system of theological education is now labelled medieval and said to be irrelevant to most of today's crucial issues.