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DMcFadden · #18 (**permalink**) 02-22-2008, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by KMK

Are you saying the fact that Vineyard pastors became more and more California seminary educated that led to this? Wow! Who could have imagined a day when higher education would actually be a detriment to the church. (That is not to say that there aren't some great 'smaller' seminaries in CA)

Would you say the same goes for Dispensationalism in CA seminaries?

Actually, Ken, not exactly. Most evangelical seminaries tilt in the egalitarian direction, not merely the California ones. Fuller just takes it a little bit further than some others.

Bill Mounce (of the Greek textbook fame) tells the story recounted in one of Grudem's books of the time when he was called on the carpet by the Dean at Fuller (back in the late 80s!!!) for presenting the complementarian view in his class on the Pastoral Epistles.

I know a recent Fuller grad (female) who promptly withdrew from her evangelical denomination's ordination council because one of the others on the committee held a complementarian view. She was shocked that the committee members did not discipline or at least rebuke the member who disagreed with ordaining women for reasons of conscience. Ironically, the fellow is a very friendly and caring pastor who holds his view with gentleness. He was happy to treat the female colleague with respect. He simply disagreed with voting for the ordination of a candidate because she was a woman. In any case, when the chair defended the right of the fellow to interpret 1 Tim as prohibiting the ordination of women, she was quite upset.