billiefan2000
March 31st, 2008, 12:22 PM
Cedarville’s Battle Over Postmodernism Continues to Make News
The Dayton Daily News
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/03/29/ddn033008cedarville.html
is now covering the Cedarville University issue between those who hold to a “certainty” view of Scripture
versus those who hold the emerging/postmodern view which is anything but certain.
I received an email a few months ago from an irate faculty member
who was upset that I was covering the matter at all.
This was before the story broke in one of the most prestigious academic journals on higher education
and before the rest of the news media picked up on it.
Everything that was stated here on Slice—
that it is a battle between the emerging proponents and those who are being faithful to Scripture,
has been borne out since by the secular media.
It’s a battle for the university,
and I thank God for the “stalwart, old iconoclasts”, as one poem puts it, who refuse to be carried away by the tide of postmodernism.
Those faculty at Cedarville University who hold fast to God’s Word have not changed.
The rest of those faculty who are enamored with the postmodern love for fog and the emerging confusion are the ones who are leaving the reservation.
Let them go and start their own university where they can walk around in mystery and uncertainty all they want.
In fact, there are many evangelical institutions that are already filled with postmodern fog that would be very glad,
I am sure, to have more fog-blowing postmodern faculty members…
The Dayton Daily News
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/03/29/ddn033008cedarville.html
is now covering the Cedarville University issue between those who hold to a “certainty” view of Scripture
versus those who hold the emerging/postmodern view which is anything but certain.
I received an email a few months ago from an irate faculty member
who was upset that I was covering the matter at all.
This was before the story broke in one of the most prestigious academic journals on higher education
and before the rest of the news media picked up on it.
Everything that was stated here on Slice—
that it is a battle between the emerging proponents and those who are being faithful to Scripture,
has been borne out since by the secular media.
It’s a battle for the university,
and I thank God for the “stalwart, old iconoclasts”, as one poem puts it, who refuse to be carried away by the tide of postmodernism.
Those faculty at Cedarville University who hold fast to God’s Word have not changed.
The rest of those faculty who are enamored with the postmodern love for fog and the emerging confusion are the ones who are leaving the reservation.
Let them go and start their own university where they can walk around in mystery and uncertainty all they want.
In fact, there are many evangelical institutions that are already filled with postmodern fog that would be very glad,
I am sure, to have more fog-blowing postmodern faculty members…