Between 18, 39 Bible schools were founded in the United States. As one historian put it, "It is not a coincidence that the Bible institute movement grew up during the very period when the philosophy of naturalism became prevalent in American education". The "Bible institute/college movement" has been described as "a protest to the inroads of secularization in higher education and as a base for the education of lay workers and full-time Bible teachers, evangelists, and pastors". The American Bible college movement developed in reaction to the secularization of U.S. Many were established as a reaction against established theological colleges and seminaries, which conservatives believed were becoming increasingly liberal and undermining traditional Christian teachings, such as Biblical inerrancy. Simpson ( Nyack College in 1882) of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and D. The first Bible schools in North America were founded by A.
In the United States and Canada, the origins of the Bible college movement are in the late 19th-century Bible institute movement. Chrischona founded in 1840 by Christian Friedrich Spittler in Bettingen, Switzerland and the and Pastors' College (renamed Spurgeon's College) established in 1856 by Pastor Charles Spurgeon at London in United Kingdom. In Europe, the first schools that could be classified in this category are Theologisches Seminar St. Bible colleges differs from other theological institutions in their missionary perspective.
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