Recent content by John of Japan

There are still little corners of research in various areas. My son's PhD dissertation at Southeastern BTS was on: "A Foreknown Destiny for the Socially Destitute: An Examination of 1 Peter's Concept of Foreknowledge in the Establishment of Social-Spiritual Identity." In it he does original...

Aha! Thank you.

One thing for sure, the DD (Doctor of Divinity) degree does not indicate a scholar! It's a political degree, IMO. If you know the president of a Bible college well enough, you might get one. I remember hearing that a certain Bible college founder in IN, whose initials are JH, made a deal with BG...

Some fundamental Baptist school offered a STD back in the day, and I briefly considered it. Might have been Northland--I don't rightly remember.

Legend says a Presbyterian fell down the stairs, picked himself up, brushed himself off and said, "Glad that's over with!"

Nowadays maybe ten understand (being facetious).

:D Built up your arm muscles rather than your mental muscles? My son says there is very little practical difference nowadays. You can do a PhD with an emphasis on theology.

This is very true. A PhD is a research degree, but a DMin is a practical ministry degree. You have to do genuine research in your dissertation topic that hopefully no one has done before. On the other hand, a DMin dissertation (usually called a DMin project) must be on a practical subject...

I agree that these men are scholars, except for the Wright brothers. Great inventors and engineers, though.

Pink took a course in 1910 at Moody Bible Institute for summer school, but dropped out without even finishing that class. That is the sum total of the formal theological training he received. According to one biography, “Perhaps it was his strong individualistic spirit that made it difficult for...

I agree. That's kind of you to say! Recently I was sitting at a dinner table with my pastor and some other pastors. I wanted to show my coffee cup with a Greek word on it to Pastor, but I raised my left hand with it, and I have the shakes lately in that hand, so I spilled it. Pastor said...

Thanks for the facts.

Well, yes, these men are scholars. However, because of Barth's advocacy of neo-orthodoxy I think of him as toxic, though a scholar/theologian. My son took a class or two under Kostenberger, and he is a valid and important scholar. I know Bauder, and he is a good man. He once defended me when I...

Where I minister we are old school fundamentalists: not KJVO, not super separatists, majoring on evangelism and prayer and the Word of God. It's sad where most of independent Baptist fundamentalism is today. They are not at all the fundamentalism I grew up with: John R. Rice (a first generation...

Correction: a friend noticed this and wrote me that a ThM is also acceptable for ETS membership. A DMin etc. can be an associate, non-voting member.