1. Welcome to Baptist Board, a friendly forum to discuss the Baptist Faith in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to all the features that our community has to offer.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!

Bethany Divinity College & Seminary

Discussion in 'Baptist Colleges & Seminaries' started by Phil310, Dec 15, 2006.

Top Posters
Page 2 of 2
  1. Dr.Tim

    Dr.Tim New Member

    Joined:
    Dec 25, 2004
    Messages:
    253
    Likes Received:
    1
    Yes, I understand what you are saying and your aim. I would hope that everyone who holds the label "doctor" would have training in languages and, as you said, be able to do the things expected of a person holding the highest degree. I think that is a respectable goal.

    My own recommendation to another person who emailed me about going to Bethany was simple... go somewhere else and get the necessary tools, because many of them just cannot be taught and tested in a correspondence setting. I attended a seminary that required languages and therefore I was was able to parse and so forth. When I began at Bethany, all those tools were not of use because the degree level below it did not teach it and therefore the advanced student was not told to put those tools to use. If he still thinks he wants to go to Bethany, go ahead.

    One friend of mine started from ZERO college and went all the way thru doctorate in another off-campus school. No way would I recommend that. I wouldnt suggest someone go that route from the get-go. Go to a school that forces you to learn biblical languages and all the necessary tools for exegesis, etc.
     
    #21 Dr.Tim, Dec 25, 2006
  2. UZThD

    UZThD New Member

    Joined:
    Dec 24, 2004
    Messages:
    1,238
    Likes Received:
    0
     
    #22 UZThD, Dec 26, 2006
    Last edited by a moderator: Dec 26, 2006
  3. paidagogos

    paidagogos Active Member

    Joined:
    Dec 15, 2003
    Messages:
    2,279
    Likes Received:
    0
    Not to pick an argument

     
    #23 paidagogos, Dec 26, 2006
  4. Rhetorician

    Rhetorician Administrator
    Administrator

    Joined:
    Feb 1, 2005
    Messages:
    2,208
    Likes Received:
    68
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Paid Response!

    Hi Paid,

    Long time no talk!

    What, if I may ask, is wrong with RC Sproul's doctoral degree?

    Help me if I am not out of the loop? I thought he got (one) his doctorate at St. Andrew's in Scotland or some such?

    Let me know.

    sdg!:confused:

    rd
     
    #24 Rhetorician, Dec 26, 2006
  5. UZThD

    UZThD New Member

    Joined:
    Dec 24, 2004
    Messages:
    1,238
    Likes Received:
    0
     
    #25 UZThD, Dec 26, 2006
    Last edited by a moderator: Dec 26, 2006
  6. Rhetorician

    Rhetorician Administrator
    Administrator

    Joined:
    Feb 1, 2005
    Messages:
    2,208
    Likes Received:
    68
    Faith:
    Baptist
    UZ Response

    UZ,

    Amen and I agree wholeheartedly.

    It is very seldom that a man with only the old BD or an MDiv can direct PhD dissertations like David Buttrick does (did) @ Vanderbilt? He is semi-retired and in not-so-good health at the present.

    It does happen from time to time though, when a man is so outstanding that "his gift makes a place" for him such as "Dr." Buttrick's has.

    Amen? or Oh Me? to anyone who might question the person I cited?

    sdg!:thumbsup:

    rd
     
    #26 Rhetorician, Dec 26, 2006
  7. Broadus

    Broadus Member

    Joined:
    Nov 30, 2004
    Messages:
    716
    Likes Received:
    0
    Hi Rhet,

    Dr. Sproul received the Drs. from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1969 and the Ph.D. from Whitefield Theological Seminary in 2001.

    Bill
     
    #27 Broadus, Dec 26, 2006
  8. paidagogos

    paidagogos Active Member

    Joined:
    Dec 15, 2003
    Messages:
    2,279
    Likes Received:
    0
    Memory fails?

    I think both Sprouls Sr. & Jr. have doctorates from unaccredited Whitefield although Sr. has an impressive doctorate from the Free University. Jr., I think, only has the Whitefield degree. I may be mistaken on this and have something reversed. I'm doing this entirely from memory and didn't take the time to check. Please forgive my unstable memory.
     
    #28 paidagogos, Dec 28, 2006
  9. paidagogos

    paidagogos Active Member

    Joined:
    Dec 15, 2003
    Messages:
    2,279
    Likes Received:
    0
    Use of doctorates

     
    #29 paidagogos, Dec 28, 2006
  10. UZThD

    UZThD New Member

    Joined:
    Dec 24, 2004
    Messages:
    1,238
    Likes Received:
    0
     
    #30 UZThD, Dec 28, 2006
    Last edited by a moderator: Dec 28, 2006
  11. Broadus

    Broadus Member

    Joined:
    Nov 30, 2004
    Messages:
    716
    Likes Received:
    0
    Paid,

    The Whitefield program, it seems to me, is a rigorous one, though I suspect Sproul, Sr., did the Whitefield Ph.D. more to add respectability to the school rather than to gain additional training.

    Sproul, Jr.'s, Whitefield doctorate is a DMin, I think.

    Bill
     
    #31 Broadus, Dec 28, 2006
  12. table

    table New Member

    Joined:
    Nov 28, 2010
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    I think you are wrong about Benthany Divinity College and Seminary.
     
    #32 table, Dec 2, 2010
  13. webdog

    webdog Active Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Mar 31, 2005
    Messages:
    24,696
    Likes Received:
    2
    Who...it's been 4 years since anyone posted on this thread :)
     
    #33 webdog, Dec 2, 2010
  14. TomVols

    TomVols New Member

    Joined:
    Oct 30, 2000
    Messages:
    11,170
    Likes Received:
    0
    Whitefield is indeed rigorous.
     
    #34 TomVols, Dec 3, 2010
  15. exscentric

    exscentric Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    May 24, 2004
    Messages:
    4,366
    Likes Received:
    47
    Faith:
    Baptist
    I would like to hear why you think this.
     
    #35 exscentric, Dec 5, 2010
(You must log in or sign up to post here.)
Page 2 of 2
Loading...