You are currently browsing the tag archive for the 'ministerial training' tag.
With apologies to Scot McKnight (Fridays are for Friends - but what good is the web if I can’t blatantly rip off a good idea and pretend it’s mine?) I thought perhaps I could bring some order to the chaos that has become the HB by dedicating HB Saturdays to the questions of theological education, training pastors, and WSC. To get started, in honor of the writer’s strike (it’s still on, right?), I’m re-running three posts from March, 2007 on the importance of a seminary education in ministerial training. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, the discussion over at the PB is still going. Here some responses from that discussion and elsewhere. To Jerrold’s objection I answer (expanding on what wrote originally):
In the interests of time, I would like to focus on one question of principle rather than the particulars of your proposal.
We’ve been round this pole more than a few times and I don’t expect to convince you, but I hope that you will at least appreciate how it seems to me that your approach is a subtle sort of anti-intellectualism. Read the rest of this entry »
There has been considerable discussion about this post over at The Puritanboard
The PB thread was started my my friend Jerrold Lewis. I haven’t read his blog post, so I’m only responding to the discussion on the PB. Read the rest of this entry »
I see that someone is starting an(other?) online seminary. It has the intriguing name of Wittenberg Reformed Theological Seminary. To the best of my knowledge, “as of today,” (as folk say during congressional hearings) Wittenberg was a staunchly Lutheran town (the official name is Lutherstadt Wittenberg) and school. Invoking Wittenberg as the qualifier of “Reformed” is a little like a Lutheran starting Geneva Lutheran Seminary or Dort Lutheran Seminary. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, the discussion over at the PB is still going. Here some responses from that discussion and elsewhere. To Jerrold’s objection I answer (expanding on what wrote originally):
In the interests of time, I would like to focus on one question of principle rather than the particulars of your proposal. Read the rest of this entry »
R. Scott Clark
Recent Comments