And man are things different at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. It was not long ago that the New Testament department was anchored by post-modern, edgy Bible scholars raising questions about Westminster’s original Confession on the inerrancy of Scripture. Today, Peter Enns is gone and G.K. Beale is in… some difference indeed!
Good for Carl Trueman and Peter Lillback. Westminster is a stronger institution for their efforts to tighten things up on the basic issues. Beale is an excellent Bible scholar, claims to be Reformed, and is even a Van Til guy. Now if we could only get him ordained in a better denomination…
Up to this point, I had written off Westminster “East”.
The only guy I cared about there was Lane Tipton. Since I am a Beale fan too, it’s time to reconsider them. Maybe, just maybe, they now deserve mentioning in a list of Seminaries worth exploring for theological students.
Wow Greg. Your tough.
Just curious, who were the edgy, post-modern NT scholars you are talking about?
A Van-Til guy, eh? I know he’s a presuppositionalist and, last time I checked, he was a Clarkian, but as for a VanTillian . . . he wasn’t comfortable enough with analogy for that – so I recall.