Is the Division of Religion and Philosophy associated with any denomination?
Azusa Pacific University was founded in 1899 as the Training School for Christian Workers. Although Quakers and Methodists (Wesleyans) started the School, the founders decided to “make the school interdenominational.” A shared church history in the American Holiness Movement helped to bind together the early ecumenical group of educators. C.P. Haggard, who served as APU’s president for 39 years, identified the university as “evangelical” by basing its “Statement of Faith” in the 1940s on that of the National Association of Evangelicals. But he modified the Statement by grafting it onto the “Daily Living Expectations,” distinctive of the Wesleyan and Holiness traditions. Haggard strengthened the Wesleyan and Holiness traditions of the University in the 1960s, when Los Angeles Pacific College and Arlington College merged with Azusa Pacific College, which were affiliated with the Free Methodist Church and Church of God (Anderson), respectively. These churches were part of the historic Hol
