[OLD REGGIE]

I'm a Catholic and my first thought is if this guy was teaching Aquinas and became a Catholic he really was qualified to be teaching the material. Who better to teach St. Thomas, one of the doctors of our Church, than a Catholic?

That said, Wheaten has got every right to fire the guy. I wish Boston College and Georgetown would fire the anit-Catholics at their schools. (Personally, I would be happy to have Evangelicals at BC and GU, it's the CINOs we need to expunge).

While I don't disagree completely with you it must be considered that a committed Catholic could/would teach Aquinas differently than a somewhat objective Evangelical Protestant. No?

A reading of the Wheaton College Mission Statement Here
I personally feel the Aquinas course taught by Joshua Hochschild would be worthwhile as long as it was made clear he was teaching from the "Catholic" perspective.

Then again, Wheaton is not a secular organization and I must admit I am looking at it from a "Unitarian" point of view.

[old and tired]

a committed Catholic could/would teach Aquinas differently than a somewhat objective Evangelical Protestant. No?

I don't think I'd call an Evangelical Protestant somewhat objective. Also, I think ideally, Hinduism should be taught by a Hindu, Islam taught by a Muslim, etc. That's the way Cardinal John Henry Newman defined the Idea of the University. It's a Catholic thing. (Of course it's also the same reasoning the Jesuits abuse so they can hire every commie pagan under the sun to teach in their colleges).