Featured Congratulations Dr. Maurice Robinson!

You know, there is an interesting story behind how Dr. Robinson became a professor at SEBTS even before the conservative Dr. Patterson arrived. Back then, a faculty committee had to approve each new faculty member, and in general they only approved like-minded ones (i.e., not conservative ones). But on the committee was Dr. Robinson's major professor for his Th.M., and he couldn't bring himself to reject Robinson out of professional courtesy. There was another who voted against. I'm not sure who cast the deciding vote. Perhaps the late faculty dean Dr. Russ Bush, the first of the conservatives to enter SEBTS in a long time. Anyway, the choice of Dr. Robinson, an SEBTS alumnus for both M.Div. and Th.M., and especially having a good reputation with his major professor who was on the committee to approve new faculty, was a very shrewd move by Dr. Bush.

 

Dr. Robinson doesn't appreciate it when Bible software companies charge what he thinks is too high a price for resources that he has made available to them freely. For example, Logos charges $36.95 for the 2005 Byzantine GNT that he made available to the company for free. One reason they charge is because they have to program the text to work with their own Bible software platform and searching/tagging system. Depending on the number of man-hours it takes to do this, and also the number of copies they think they can sell, they set a price to try to break even at least and perhaps turn a profit. Bibleworks, on the other hand, constantly adds many of the same resources without raising its price a comparable amount. That said, I still hope that Accordance and Logos will get a chance to develop Robinson's materials for those of us who use those platforms. (I use Accordance). Will they be first in line? Probably not. But hopefully they will become available eventually in as many platforms as possible!

 

Cool story!

 

Apparently seminary rules wouldn't allow President Drummond or Dean Bush to veto a unanimous faculty vote against a new faculty appointment, but a handful out of 40 or so professors voted in favor of Robinson, and that was enough to allow an administrative override. To God be the glory!

 

Though its not related to SEBTS directly, SBTS did a documentary about Mohler and the conservative resurgence. Pretty good. Check it out if you haven't seen it.

http://vimeo.com/76963904

 

he seeks to return batists do the reformed hertigage of many of their roots, at least in regards to Sotierology proper!

 

So would he had been welcomed at staff at say DTS, where they hold to the CT as being the best one to use?

 

Would think that a Seminary would actuallt want to have both positions advocated for, in order to have the students actually see why both sides take the viewpoints they do!

 

Which is surprising, as I believe that the latest Nestrle-Aland Greek text actually restored back some Bzt readings, as they were seen as being perhaps the better varients in some cases!

 

I are parta that tribe

 

So, SEBTS is really eclectic. ;-)

 

All I meant was that SEBTS has an eclectic group of New Testament scholars. I even added a smiley face. I wasn't making a comment about a particular textual priority.

 

Yay SEBTS!!!

Gonna be a grad after this summer!!!!