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Matt Richard wrote:I must admit this all confuses me...
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Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson responded to recent questions regarding a Muslim student studying at the seminary. He acknowledged that a Palestinian Muslim man was allowed to enroll in the school’s Ph.D. program in archaeology.
“For several years, Southwestern Seminary has operated a dig at Tel Gezer in Israel,” Patterson said. “During that time we have been joined in the effort by around 20 of our own students and about 60 students from secular schools and religious schools. We have had both Israelis and Muslims.
“One of these young men from a Muslim background loved our people and asked to study with us. He accepted the necessity of abiding by our moral code of conduct. He is a man of peace, and we agreed to admit him into the archeology program.”
Patterson said he has made similar exceptions on rare occasions during his presidencies at Southwestern, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Criswell College. He estimated having done so four or five times in his nearly 40 years of academic administration. His intention for the exceptions each time, including this one, was based on a desire to see these individuals understand the good news of Jesus Christ.
“This man's progress has been good,” Patterson said, “and we are especially grateful for the close relations that have been forged with peaceful Muslims and the opportunities that we have had to share biblical truths with them. In all of this there is not even a hint of compromise of our historic position.”
Big Daddy Weaver wrote:I don't know what one does with a Ph.D. in Archaeology from a seminary, but I hope this brouhaha doesn't result in the school booting the Muslim student. That would be absolutely cruel.
Sandy wrote:Southwestern's admission practices and policies were in effect long before the conservatives became the majority on the trustee boards. Southwestern would not have admitted a Muslim when I was there, and Russell Dilday and the moderates controlled the board. Those rules and policies go back at least to the 1960's, maybe further. So, Timothy, your criticism doesn't hold water.
Sandy wrote:Southwestern's admission practices and policies were in effect long before the conservatives became the majority on the trustee boards. Southwestern would not have admitted a Muslim when I was there, and Russell Dilday and the moderates controlled the board. Those rules and policies go back at least to the 1960's, maybe further. So, Timothy, your criticism doesn't hold water.
Ed Pettibone wrote:Sandy wrote:Southwestern's admission practices and policies were in effect long before the conservatives became the majority on the trustee boards. Southwestern would not have admitted a Muslim when I was there, and Russell Dilday and the moderates controlled the board. Those rules and policies go back at least to the 1960's, maybe further. So, Timothy, your criticism doesn't hold water.
Ed: Sandy would Southwestern have admitted a practicing Jewish scholar, when you where there?
Timothy Bonney wrote:Sandy it isn't the specific policy, it is the attitude. Once you create a repressive attitude where the most conservative answer is always the right answer, right or wrong, then the only way to stay in power or in favor it to move further to the right every time you are asked to take a position. It also is a reminder that if fundamentalists don't have a moderate or liberal to pick on their attack on of their own.
Stephen Fox wrote:Words have meaning and we must be honest about the word Fundamentalist.
The Southern Baptist Convention is a FUNDAMENTALIST denomination.
That was the whole purpose of the Takeover to make sure everybody believed the first eleven chapters of Genesis are History and SCIENCE. That was Pressler's mantra.
All the Creeds and Resolutions are Fundy.
So let's don't change definitions in the middle of the Game.
Stephen Fox wrote:Words have meaning and we must be honest about the word Fundamentalist.
The Southern Baptist Convention is a FUNDAMENTALIST denomination.
That was the whole purpose of the Takeover to make sure everybody believed the first eleven chapters of Genesis are History and SCIENCE. That was Pressler's mantra.
All the Creeds and Resolutions are Fundy.
So let's don't change definitions in the middle of the Game.
Sandy wrote:
"Fundamentalist" is a hate word ....
Sandy wrote:Southwestern does not offer a doctorate in Archaeology. It offers a Master of Arts in Archaeology and Biblical Studies, so somewhere in the information that has been shared about the Muslim student, there's an error.
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