The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum What's going on at WTS-P?

Anne,

This is the first I have heard of any problems at WTS-P, thanks to your post. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/BigThumbUp.gif" alt="" /> However, after reading through all of the responses to the blog you linked to and doing some further research it would appear that some of the newer faculty members have taken a questionable road in their "scholarship". Those respondents on that blog seem to be in defense of these men, e.g., Peter Enns.

Now, what is all this brouhaha about? Well, apparently Enns has proposed a new biblical hermeneutic to defend the inspiration and reliability/trustworthiness of Scripture. In doing so, IMHO, he has erred; putting a screen door in a submarine. The supporters of Enns and others are wanting more "tolerance" (a favorite catch word these days) among the more traditional faculty members so as to allow such "scholarship" to have academic freedom and acceptance. But we all know what that generally means and the results of such "tolerance", e.g., NPP, FV, Shepherd, semi-Pelagianism, Theonomy, etc., etc., ad nauseam. To give some validity to my assessment please notice that John H. Armstrong was one of the respondents who echoed his typical cry for "tolerance" in scholarship and which toleration has led him to FV.

Here are a couple of links that might shed some light on this controversy:

1. Paul Helm's Blog

2. Inspiration and Incarnation: Evange... Old Testament - a critique by Paul Helm

Some of this material may be a little challenging to some but I feel it is definitely worth the effort working through it. If nothing else, it is valuable to once again see how this new trend in "scholarship" uses familiar words/terms but redefines them but without revealing the morphing of those terms. The result is deception at least and an open door to dangerous teachings and even heresy, contra to the long accepted confessional doctrines.

In His grace,