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All Change
Posted by: Ros on: March 18, 2009
- In: academic theology | htc | oak hill | wts
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At coffee today, Peter Head jokingly suggested that I may be something of a jinx for theological institutions. He didn’t look too nervous about it but it’s true that in the last year, there have been a significant number of staff changes at places with which I have strong links. The most recent to be [...]
That’s odd
Posted by: Ros on: July 23, 2008
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The joint WTS/Peter Enns statement is online at the WTS website here and on Pete’s blog here. Anyone else spot the difference? ETA: The WTS version has been amended so that both now show the same date of departure.
How do you tell the end from the beginning?
Posted by: Ros on: July 23, 2008
- In: america | theology | wts
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This statement announcing Pete Enns’ departure from WTS has just been made public. I wonder what church historians will make of this in a hundred years time. Maybe it will be seen as nothing more than a blip in the progress of the kingdom. Perhaps it will be the beginning of the end for the [...]
WTS and conversational theology
Posted by: Ros on: May 4, 2008
- In: academic theology | bible | hermeneutics | links | theological education | wts
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For anyone without the time or inclination to read the 146-page pdf file now available on the WTS website, Joel Garver has provided a helpful summary and analysis of the documents. He reads between the lines to discern some of the deeper issues that have led to the current crisis. The following paragraph is particularly [...]
Double whammy
Posted by: Ros on: April 1, 2008
- In: fun stuff | links | wts
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Today has been one of those days that I wish had never happened. Here at Westminster, we had the chapel meeting in which the President and the Chairman of the Board spoke briefly and then answered student questions about the issues surrounding Pete Enns’s suspension from the faculty. It was a sickening exercise in spin [...]
Another sad day
Posted by: Ros on: March 28, 2008
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On Wednesday, the Board of Westminster held a meeting to discuss the future of Pete Enns, an OT professor at the seminary, concerning issues in his book ‘Inspiration and Incarnation’. I and many others had been praying that the board would uphold the faculty vote in which a majority (12-8) found Pete to be orthodox. [...]
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