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I am encouraged by this news. I hope they follow through in May. Thanks for the update.
This is good news indeed. Underlying todays events, I hope that WTS PA moves back toward its militant stand for confessionally reformed Orthodoxy. In my humble opinion We need more men like Stonehouse, Murray, Machen and Van Til. I love my friends who broad evangelicals, but I want to persuade them of my theological convictions, and not to become more like them hoping they will except my views on soteriology. May the lord grant the men at WTS PA wisdom and humble hearts in how to proceed.
I am encouraged by this news. I hope they follow through in May. Thanks for the update.
John, are you sure what is behind Rev. King's comments? A seminary professor may indeed be a brother in the Lord with a family, but he influences others who also are brothers in the Lord with families. I am not speaking specifically of Peter Enns, but of any teacher of the word of God that replaces truth with error. WTS-Philly is handling this matter and we pray they do the right thing in the sight of God. Perhaps it is because he has a family that his suspension does not begin until the end of the term.
I am encouraged by this news. I hope they follow through in May. Thanks for the update.
This is good news indeed. Underlying todays events, I hope that WTS PA moves back toward its militant stand for confessionally reformed Orthodoxy. In my humble opinion We need more men like Stonehouse, Murray, Machen and Van Til. I love my friends who broad evangelicals, but I want to persuade them of my theological convictions, and not to become more like them hoping they will except my views on soteriology. May the lord grant the men at WTS PA wisdom and humble hearts in how to proceed.
John, are you sure what is behind Rev. King's comments? A seminary professor may indeed be a brother in the Lord with a family, but he influences others who also are brothers in the Lord with families. I am not speaking specifically of Peter Enns, but of any teacher of the word of God that replaces truth with error. WTS-Philly is handling this matter and we pray they do the right thing in the sight of God. Perhaps it is because he has a family that his suspension does not begin until the end of the term.
Bill
I am only responding to the words on the page, nothing more.
John
So can anyone give a synopsis and a review of this book which seems to have gotten this proff into hot water. What is so scandalous?
So can anyone give a synopsis and a review of this book which seems to have gotten this proff into hot water. What is so scandalous?
A brief review is found here at the OPC website.
A longer one with much more substantive discussion of the book's problems, at Reformation21.
Yes, the conclusion about sums up the divide:So can anyone give a synopsis and a review of this book which seems to have gotten this proff into hot water. What is so scandalous?
A brief review is found here at the OPC website.
A longer one with much more substantive discussion of the book's problems, at Reformation21.
The review on the OPC website is most helpful. Thanks!!!
The book concludes with a plea for temperate discussion, apart from "judgmental suspicion" and "polarization and power plays." Enns anticipates being vilified, writing, "The problem is that true Christians erect a wall of hostility between them, and churches, denominations, and schools split" (p. 172).
This plea cannot smooth over the troubling fact that Enns writes beyond the boundaries of the Reformed tradition as exemplified by chapter 1 of the Westminster Confession. When he says the Bible looks human, he means it does not look divine. When he says Genesis is part myth, he means it is not true in historic, narrative particulars. When he says "conflicting theologies," he means the Bible contradicts itself. This book has the cumulative effect of lowering conservative preconceptions about the inspiration of Scripture. It seems unlikely that it will raise any liberal-leaning preconceptions. Liberals believe the Incarnation is a myth.
Richard Pratt stresses how Moses wrote Genesis for a human audience too. However, this author appears to go further. Myth is a very poor choose of words - what was he thinking anyway!
Richard Pratt stresses how Moses wrote Genesis for a human audience too. However, this author appears to go further. Myth is a very poor choose of words - what was he thinking anyway!
methinks that sometimes people get educated out of thier common sense.
While I found that there were some profs who were conservative and committed to staying within the parameters of confessional orthodoxy, others weren't, and that what I had been told about the position of the seminary being compatible with mine was definitely not the case. Nowhere was this more true than in the Old Testament department.
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I am trying not to blame the board, but I don't believe anyone should have to feel at graduation like an animal being set free from a leg-hold merely because their views lined up with the Confession the seminary itself endorses, especially when one has paid $30,000 in order to go through that experience. I also believe that concealing the actual views of the faculty from alums and financial supporters has to stop. I had one prof admit to me that this was done deliberately because the widows who send in their donations aren't yet ready for the views of men like Enns (they "wouldn't understand them" right) and that first the WTS graduates have to prepare the ground in the church for the coming changes. My response to that today is just the same as it was then: "mh. ge,noito"!
Your Servant in Christ,
Andy
As educational institutions and pulpits "modernize" biblical truth, the confessions are a standard that keep the faithful from serious error. Is scripture sufficient? Certainly! The confessions remind us of that.