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Originally Posted by Covenant Joel  No offense intended to those have been dissing RTS-O, but I wonder how many of those completely opposed to it have actually attended classes here.
Yes, RTS-O is not as confessionally reformed as some others. However, professors here do not fudge on Calvinism as some have suggested. Some would take exceptions to the Confession, yes, but they do not denigrate the past as some have suggested. It's a good place. Not a perfect one for sure, but a good place. It is more diverse than other Reformed seminaries, but there is some strength to that as well. Just my two cents as one who is actually here. |
JOel,
Glad you like your seminary.
But, the issue is the public statements of professors and their wives.
Carolyn James: Many are very concerned about Ms. CUSTIS James and her trajectory.
John Frame: Read Machen's Warrior Children, and you'll see why many are concerned about him. He is not himself, FV or NPP, but he is, in classic psychological terms, an enabler to those that are.
Reggie Kidd: Kidd started a firestorm when he started trumpeting female ordination on his blog, in public.
Add to that a professor who was hired WHILE he was under ecclesiastical discipline in California, and I think you can see why many of us might be concerned.
If questions are asked about any seminary, I would be honest in my assessment of them. They are all mixed bags, some more than others, and people need to know what they are getting before they go.
Those positions are incompatible with anything resembling the Reformed faith, and there is nothing wrong with pointing that out to prospective seminarians.