Former professor and SWBTS at odds over dismissal

rlvaughn · Dec 12, 2019

Former professor and seminary at odds over cause of dismissal

Robert Oscar Lopez, formerly a humanities professor in Scarborough College, issued a public statement Dec. 3 asserting his position was eliminated due to pressure from the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and opposition from seminary administration.
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“Let me be absolutely clear: no faculty member, including Dr. Lopez, has been told, or would be told, they cannot discuss homosexuality,” Stinson said in the Dec. 4 statement.

The seminary “joyfully affirms” the 2000 Baptist Faith & Message, “including each and every assertion about biblical sexuality,” he stated.
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Lopez wrote that Adam Greenway, who was elected president of Southwestern Seminary in February, “fired 26 professors in 24 hours, sending a clear signal to all of us that we were eminently replaceable.”
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In an Oct. 10 interview with the Baptist Standard, Greenway noted the drastic reduction in Southwestern Seminary’s enrollment over the course of the last few decades. He stressed his desire to emphasize residential theological education and give greater attention to the master’s level degree programs that equip students for ministry in churches.
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“I was preaching publicly that with the help of Jesus Christ people could overcome homosexuality, and I was discussing same-sex sex abuse,”...Lopez alleged he was ordered in September to stop discussing homosexuality or sex abuse while he was employed at the seminary.
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In his Dec. 4 statement, Stinson insisted the seminary holds to its traditional understanding regarding biblical sexuality and the ability of individuals to be changed by Christ.
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