You are describing the "skin of their teeth" escape of SEBTS!
They WERE put on probation until an investigation could be completed. Masses of students went elsewhere for several years. Students returned under the pretense that "it was now safe." The numbers came back with the start of a College Degree (not needed in a seminary environment and in direct competition to state Baptist colleges all over).
My school became a "cult of the personality" as Paige Patterson became President. He made things so rough on my professors, most of them found employment elsewhere or retired early. They were treated like rabid dogs!
Meanwhile, the same text books we used were still in use. The lectures contained new terms like "cultural relativism, liberalism." It was a pretended education and more indoctrination. There were great lies told about the numbers of students. Only 30% of their classrooms were in use, yet they had to build new buildings with new names on them and that of Paige and Dorothy Patterson.
It is no longer the school and the quality I experienced in 1967-70. It was at its highest student level under Randall Lolley and was teaching practical matters training young men and women to lead churches in a practical fashion. The school begans a crusade to change small churches to a King Pastor mode of operation and many went into crisis. They will no longer call a student pastor from SEBTS. They started working in the Associations of NC and the Baptist State Convention. Controversy and exclusions are happening everywhere. The attendance at the State Convention meeting has dwindled to the point they moved to a much smaller facility. It is now run, mostly, by the Executive Committee.
The days of autonomy and joy agreeing to disagree on certain matters are past / gone / ended / fini
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