[Gamecock]

***As he saw it, evangelical Protestantism was vaguely defined and had a weak scholarly tradition***

I've been saying that for years around here and constantly get howled down. He's right on that point. (See my tagline)

But......Wheaton has a right to hire whomever they want. They hang themselves out as an Evangelical School, they have a right to have an Evangelical Faculty.


(Not that I would send my kids there.)

[Alex Murphy]

Not that I would send my kids there

The Schaeffers took Wheaton to task in the 80s for refusing to take a moral stance - as an institution or via their offered courses - on the issue of abortion. Nothing that Wheaton does surprises me much.

[Kolokotronis]

I agree with Gamecock, odd as that may sound! Personally, I think the school may have made a mistake here, but it is their college and their rules.

[Veto!]

As he saw it, evangelical Protestantism was vaguely defined and had a weak scholarly tradition, which sharpened his admiration for Catholicism's self-assurance and intellectual history.

I agree. As a former Catholic, I've tried Protestantism in its many forms, including the evangelicals, and the more I dabble, the more I realize that I have a Jesuit-shaped mind.

[Flavius Josephus]

But......Wheaton has a right to hire whomever they want. They hang themselves out as an Evangelical School, they have a right to have an Evangelical Faculty.

If they require a homodoxy of faith, and fire a professor because he (gasp) starts to believe that which he is teaching, I would say it makes this college a joke. Right up there with Oral Roberts University. Evangelical Harvard my eye.