Re: Harvard's intellectual culture discourages identifi cation with Christianity

On 4/17/06, Janice Matchett <janmatch@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> At 01:10 PM 4/17/2006, Michael Roberts wrote:
>
> What a load of bunkum! Last year I was invited to lead students of
> evolutionary biology on a trip around North Wales to look at some Darwin
> sites. The staff and students were typical of a secular university and there
> was no antichristian approach. ...But then one does not expect Freerepublic
> to have any truth content.
>
>
> @ Free Republic*???
>
> *Here are the facts: The article is in The Harvard University Crimson* *
> http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=512777
>
> I merely posted my two replies (#12 and 13) to the person who happened to
> post it on FR.
>
> ~ Janice
>

Bunkum? Hardly. Janice understated the degree of unbelief at Harvard. Note
this:

"If we are to have an evangelical chair we ought to have an evangelical in
> it: the sky will not fall in if one of our professors actually profess a
> believe in his or her subject matter; but, more than this, a season of
> theological excitement and engagement will be joined when this liveliest of
> the Christian traditions is addressed from within. I suspect that the effect
> upon our students and our colleagues, and our general reputation in the
> world of theological scholarship, will be electric." [emphasis mine]
> -- The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and
> Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Harvard. September 20, 2005.
>

Think about this for a minute. The implications of the quote is that none of
the faculty at Harvard Divinity School is a believer. That's simply
breathtaking.
Received on Mon Apr 17 18:12:57 2006