Re: On evangelical seminaries, etc., and religion/science

I went to Gordon College back in the 80's, and this was the approach taken
there as well. I think most or many CCCU colleges take this approach,
probably because they have science departments of one sort or another.
There seems to be a gap between the colleges and the seminaries, though,
although maybe that's narrowing too.

On 4/5/06, Ted Davis <tdavis@messiah.edu> wrote:
>
> >>> <pcjones5@comcast.net> 04/05/06 2:44 PM >>>Phil writes:
> When I attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of the
> required classes for my M.A.Th. in Philosophy of Religion path was a
> course
> entitled "Philosophy of Religion: Faith and Science", which was a rather
> popular class. Popular because a lot of students, e.g. myself at the time,
> had a lot of unresolved issues with the alleged science and creation
> dilemma.
>
> The course professor, who refused to reveal his personal position on the
> matter of creation theology, introduced the class to all of the theories
> on
> Gen. 1 interpretation. He encouraged us to research the facts and draw our
> own conclusion(s). Interestingly, for many of us this was our first time
> to
> hear of Christian-based views outside of the YEC and Gap theories.
>
> I appreciated this approach for the following reasons:
> - it was not an indoctrination class telling us what we should believe
> - it promoted academic freedom of allowing us to reach our own
> conclusion(s)
> - it differentiated primary theology (God created) and secondary theology
> (how God created)
> - the prof gave us a bibliography of resources that covered all
> theories/approaches/views
> - the prof distinguished between biblical interpretation issues and
> scientific data interpretation issues
>
> I wish evangelical colleges and seminaries would all adopt this approach.
>
> Ted notes:
> Phil, thank you for the description of my own courses here at Messiah,
> except that I don't usually provide a bibliography to my students beyond
> the
> various articles/books that we read in the course. I only tell the
> students
> what I think, if they directly ask me at various points in the
> course--which
> they invariably do.
>
>
>
>
Received on Wed Apr 5 15:26:11 2006