Re: SBC seminary

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From: <bdffoster@charter.net>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 5:29 PM
Subject: SBC seminary

> Hello list
> I havn't posted in a looooong time, I moved, changed my email address
> etc... I'll just pose this one question and get back to lurking. It's an
> appropriate question since this list is devoted to science and
> Christianity and since I am a Southern Baptist, or at least was until I
> moved. Now I'm looking for a church. Anyway the question is why does the
> Southern Baptist Seminary need a "Center for Science and Theology" and why
> do they need William Dembski to direct it? (See
> http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i20/20a00701.htm )

Christian seminaries need to give attention to the area of science &
theology (more broadly, science-technology-theology-ethics) in the training
of pastors & other church leaders. 2 of the ELCA sems - Chicago &
Berkeley - are associated with such centers (Zygon & CTNS) & the others
offer science-theology courses. (I teach the one at Trinity.) So the fact
that the Baptist Seminary at Louisville has such a center could in itself be
considered good. Whether the way SCTS's center's will deal with such
matters will be good & whether Dembski's a good person to lead it are other
questions. (To which the answers IMO are No and No.)

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
 
Received on Wed Feb 2 19:37:49 2005