tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376955256463224749.post2111455329420657072..comments2023-09-07T12:03:43.350-07:00Comments on Theological Sushi: Why Most Academic Study of the Bible Is But Liberal ApologeticsB. C. Hodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02828477115799852133noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376955256463224749.post-27318049300455959192013-01-26T19:58:18.252-08:002013-01-26T19:58:18.252-08:00Yeah, this is a generality of course, but having k...Yeah, this is a generality of course, but having known many people who came from Ivy League schools, and having briefly attended one, I have been impressed with their breadth of knowledge, but not so much with some of their depth of it, or even their depth of understanding and being critical of their own methodologies of inquiry. <br /><br />I'd make the exception for a couple professors and students I've known from Princeton, but in general, the Ivy League student/professor isn't any more, and sometimes less, brilliant than one from a regular university or seminary (in fact, I think you're trained to think through what you believe a lot more in seminary than other schools because you're forced to do so from a more uphill battle in competing with university students for spots in PhD programs or jobs, and because Christian positions are always perceived by academics as lesser scholarship). <br /><br />All that to say, I wouldn't trust the Scarecrow to interpret life for me just because the supreme Wizard granted him a PhD.B. C. Hodgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828477115799852133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376955256463224749.post-11813436827952475482013-01-24T19:03:15.345-08:002013-01-24T19:03:15.345-08:00You know what makes this even more tragic?
You ta...You know what makes this even more tragic?<br /><br />You take the average ill-informed layman, and tell them that so-and-so has a M.Div or Ph.D at a liberal Ivy-league seminary, and they think that the M.Div or Ph.D is really smart (read "wise") about Scripture and God. <br /><br />The unsuspecting sheep is prey for the wolves and the teachers of wolves.Truth Unites... and Divideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08891402278361538353noreply@blogger.com