A good case can be made that the ATS globalization initiative was self-serving. It was fundamentally about strengthening North American, not non-Western, theological education. As a result, unless care is taken, it can be a bitter irony to see the awakening of Western institutions to global realities accomplished at the expense of the rest of the globe.
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