Seminary and Faith

Complex

if you are being tested over lectures, it’s immaterial what you believe. You have to answer accordingly.


If it’s a paper, state your case and make it


There are some schools which will kick you out for liber views if they are conservative.

liberal schools are the same in terms of a paper.

I once took a class where I did not agree w the professor and lecture and put a disclaimer of something like “the answers provided may or may not reflect the views of this student”

for a dissertation write about something no one else knows about

one lady wrote how on the middle passive voice of American Americans was a left over of African languages ie “I be stayin”

 

Btw, there are a few schools which will allow you to state conservative view back in the day

RC Sproul would talk about a German professor he had that enjoyed reading his papers but was not a conservative

 

School I went to had a lot of Koreans in the Doctoral Program 4-5?

One of them wrote a paper defending Liberation Theology. I am unsure if he really understood what he was writing. His English was lacking.

It created a hullabaloo

 

Even worse than on this board?!

 

My first masters was from Pasadena Nazarene which now is Point Loma University. It is Arminian, but I am Calvinistic. In one course we read and commented on Arminius' huge 3 volume set. I graduated with no trouble.

Another example is that my thesis on Christology at Corban was supervised by Wayne House who vigorously believes that the Son as God is eternally role subordinate to the Father. But I like Hillary, Augustine, G. Nazianzus, Calvin, and C. Hodge reject that opinion. And chapter 4 of the book I wrote based on the Corban D. Min. thesis , which Wayne approved, was an attempt to discredit his position on eternal role subordination.. At Corban too the D. Min. director-a very nice brother,-rejected my view that M. Erickson is a kenoticist! (He is!) Yet I graduated.

So, I've fortunate, I guess.

 

For my two degrees, we were required to write papers on controversial topics and I differed from the Academic Dean on dispensationalism, but he said as long as I defended my position well, I could get a good grade. I got an A in his class. Upon graduation, you had to sign the doctrinal statement of the school and state clearly any divergences, and explain those divergences. I did. I was not Pre-trib, and I believe in limited atonement, so had to defend those. They were good with
those. They would not allow people who believed in Infant baptism to become students at the seminaries, but if they came to believe that, they would allow them to graduate. ​

 

I would pray and do my research before applying to any Bible School. Currently I'm finishing my first semester at an SBC Seminary in Texas and God really led me to the right place through much prayer and godly counsel.
However, back 10 years ago, when I was still a teenager, I attended Christ For The Nations Institute because it was the "cool Bible college" with absolutely no prayer or counselling and it was a train wreck.