Claim: John Stott, an English Anglican presbyter and theologian, founded the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity in 1982 which gathered together leading evangelical intellectuals.
Evidence: John Robert Walmsley Stott CBE (27 April 1921 – 27 July 2011) was an English Anglican presbyter and theologian who was noted as a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. In 1974 he founded Langham Partnership International (known as John Stott Ministries in the US until 2012), and in 1982 the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, of which he remained honorary president until his death. During his presidency he gathered together leading evangelical intellectuals to shape courses and programmes communicating the Christian faith into a secular context.