From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 08 1996 - 06:40:55 EST
At 11:03 PM 1/7/96, Charles W. Bradley wrote:
>>What "they are teaching in seminaries these days" is the need >to try to
>examine the available evidence without prejudice to try >to let the evidence
>lead us to conclusions rather than let our >conclusions reinterpret the
>evidence.
>
>Heb 5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one
>teach you again which [be] the first
>principles of the oracles of God;
>
>Heb 11: 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
>things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a
>good report. 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the
>word of God, so that things which are seen
>were not made of things which do appear.
I'm wondering whether this is really meant to argue that critical
methodology should NOT be taught in the seminaries. I hope not. While
reasoning may raise problems for faith, I don't see much that seminaries
can teach if they abandon reasoning altogether.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
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