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Originally Posted by greenbaggins I think where I would net out on this is in the scope of a seminary's authority in contrast with the authority that a Presbytery has, say. A seminary has the authority to determine what it is going to teach within its bounds, just as a presbytery has the authority to determine what is going to be taught within its bounds. A seminary therefore has the right to determine what constitutes confessionalism within its range of authority. | We know where a presbytery gets its authority. It is divinely instituted and strictly regulated by the Word of God. It as the power to institute and define confessions, require subscription of its members, define the boundaries of subscription, and discipline those who stray.
From whence cometh the seminary's parallel authority? I can’t find anything in the Bible to instruct an independent seminary in this regard?
Or is this just a business proposition? It can make rules for its employees same as Penn State or Pizza Hut.
Is it merely de facto authority and I should just get over it? |
Well, I think that the question of a seminary's authority, and the question of whether there ought to be independent seminaries are two separate questions. I have wrestled with the latter question for some time. I am not in the least happy with my own denominational seminary. It doesn't seem to have done a whole lot of good for that seminary to be under the aegis of the PCA. I don't know that any biblical case can be made one way or the other.