Southern Seminary

While I don't want or need to know the student's name, I'd like to know the name of the person(s) he is making these allegations against, because this is a bizarre comment. That sounds like the SBTS of old. Obviously, any studied theology student would be very knowledgable of Barth and the like. But having allegiance to this ilk is another thing, and I know of none of the theology profs at SBTS having this. Email me privately if you like, Larry.

[ March 27, 2002, 05:14 PM: Message edited by: TomVols ]

 

It's amazing how moderates refer to Southern and Southeastern seminaries as being consistent with their beliefs "before the fall". But didn't those moderates get what they wanted with schools like Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond and McAfee???

 

What I don't understand is why those students came there or stayed there in the first place.

Joshua</font>[/QUOTE]So I guess that an inerrantist studying at Southern before the Mohler administration would be akin to an inerrantist studying at McAfee or Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond nowadays?

 

Tom,

I really don't know anymore than I have said here. I just found this out this week in an email. He emailed me about the rumor that I had gotten married and I emailed him back about the rumor that he thought of transferring from Southern. It was all of a sentence or two. If I get a chance to email him, I will ask a little more.

 

Does Southern still offer a program where students ride up in vans to Michigan every weekend to plant new churches?

 

SBTS students go all over to plant new churches. Vans run to Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee, and many other places. SBTS students also plant churches around the Louisville metro area, as well as do street evangelism.

 

Tom, is this sort of thing more or less frequent than it was before the takeover/resurgence?

I ask because a weakness I've noticed among my liberal colleagues is a resistance to evangelism because of negative associations with it.

Joshua

 

Exactly. And why on earth an inerrantist would come to one of those places is a complete mystery to me.

Joshua

 

Joshua asked:

More frequent. It helps too that the NAMB is partnering with the seminaries through the Nehemiah Project.

 

Exactly. And why on earth an inerrantist would come to one of those places is a complete mystery to me.

Joshua</font>[/QUOTE]Here's another mystery for you to figure out, Joshua. Dr Timothy George, dean of the reformed conservative evangelical Beeson School of Divinity earned two degrees at the mainline liberal ecumenical Harvard Divinity School.

 

It is a mystery: how can someone that scholarly and relevant have went to Harvard?

 

Pastor Larry,

I just heard a Dallas grad with a PhD in systematic theology make the exact same comment as your friend about not opening his Bible. He actually said he hadn't cracked a Bible during his entire PhD program.

He said there was lots of history and philosophy, but no Bible. Since this man's point was that Baptists need to make the Word of God their sole authority, I don't think he could be accused of laziness. He's a very committed and thorough exegete.

Is this just the way it is in systematic doctoral programs throughout evangelicalism?

 

Nice picture Sig. I love your books and tapes!

 

Thanks, but I haven't published anything. You must be thinking of someone else.

[ April 10, 2002, 11:39 AM: Message edited by: Siegfried ]

 

SBTS has another thing going for it and that is a dedication to the wives of ministers. All these "old boy" seminaries of the past just patted the ministers' wives on the back and gave them a PHT "putting hubby through" piece of paper. What in insult.

Southern Seminary started the Seminary Wives Institute in 1997 as the brain child of Mary Mohler and several wives of the faculty. Dr. Mohler, Dr. Akin fully supported with wives with dedication and prayer as they launched this project.

It is a certification course that requires 13 hours of classes. (Three of those hours being elective courses) The core courses mainly are on discipleship...the electives are anything from public speaking to Biblical parenting. To my knowledge, over 200 women have completed this course. ALL VOLUNTEER teaching from Mary Mohler to Dr. Akin!! Dr. Akin's wife handles the day care. Again, all volunteer.

It truly attempts to help the wives be as prepared as possible for their life in the ministry.

Every pastor's wife should see that their churches financially support this mission.

The current cost to wives is $10.00 a course to cover the cost of materials. Many women have earned advanced certifications and now teach the courses (volunteer) themselves.

God is truly blessing this seminary and the new Boyce College is going to make it even bigger and better.

 

BGG, yup, that's a huge leap forward for Southern. To think, just a few years ago they were training women for the pastorate. Now they have a "Pastors' Wives Institute." Yippee.

Joshua

 

Joshua:

SBTS is NOW following Scripture...but then I guess that is something new for you and your mods!

I guess you guys are still trying to figure out what is truth and what is error in the Scriptures...after you excuse abortion, but just before you start ordaining gay ministers!

 

BGG,
What do you mean start ordaining gay clergy? They've been doing that forever.

 

As a student of SEBTS, I have heard Dr. Mohler speak several times. He is a great exspositor of the Word. I have no other contact with the school, but I have heard many good things about it. Oh, and here is an observation, here at SEBTS, we now have more female students than SEBTS ever had while in its liberal years. It is interesting how we are painted to be against women, yet the facts don't pan out. No, women are not in the pastorite programs, but that is something that God originated in His Word. Men and women were both given certain roles, I am a man, and I won't be able to have children. Men weren't given the role of mother. Women could perform the duties of pastoring, but that wasn't ordained by God, so that is what I accept.