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Anne, what you say is true. And I think that confirms my original thesis. If seminary training doesn't guarantee competence it is absurd to point to Wilson's lack of it as an explanation for his incompetence. It's easy to shoot Wilson down on that score; but that technique fails when you come over to Leithart or Meyers or Jordan or Norm Shepherd. Not only that, but it's not too hard to make it backfire with a rhetorical appeal to the fact that it was the seminary trained theologians who opposed the apostolic preaching of Christ.
And that is why I think that heresy (and often error) is a moral, not an intellectual problem. Servetus seems to have been recognized as quite brilliant, after all.
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