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Originally Posted by tcalbrecht  Quote:
Originally Posted by HaigLaw
Make sense?  | Not really in this context since your earlier comment had to do with a pastor reading a book and giving pastoral advice to students under his care as to which seminary to attend. So it was not really a personal matter. Now you have turned it into a personal matter, which is fine as far as it goes.
But it fails to address my earlier concerns about publically labeling brethren based on personal opinion. |
The public-private distinction you make is not the issue. I used two examples to reason with you -- one a pastor counseling a seminary candidate, and two a hypothetical dialog between you and me.
The public-private point you make is what we in the law call a "distinction without a difference." Or, a distinction that makes no difference to the point at hand.
The point at hand was the legitimacy of WTS exercising orthodoxy determinations in terms of whom it retains on its faculty.
You questioned that legitimacy; I defended it.
It makes no sense to characterize WTS's decision to let the professor go as a "private" decision. It was very public the instant they announced it. Hundreds of churches and thousands of presbyterian church members are interested in the orthodoxy of WTS's professors. And rightly so.
They took 3 years to act on this professor's book.
It took Reformed Jackson only one year to get rid of Bahnsen after his
Theonomy in Christian Ethics was published.
And the latter was not a matter of orthodoxy, but merely controversy.
I question the wisdom of that, but not the para-ecclesiastical authority.
It was very unwise of them to run Greg off, but they surely had the authority.
