ANOTHER VIEW:
Seminary Study Committee report 'true and accurate'
By Bob Campbell
___The report of the Baptist General Convention of Texas Seminary Study Committee is still a true and accurate document. Southern Baptist Convention seminaries are no longer what most of us remember. Furthermore, they will no longer produce the type of minister most of us have loved and respected.
___Miles Seaborn (former chairman of the board of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) has stated clearly everything the committee report stated. He has made it crystal clear that the agenda has always been to remake Southwestern Seminary into a training ground for J. Frank Norris-type theology.
___In "Hemphill reassigns dean as trustees seek more faculty change" (Dec. 10), Seaborn said, "We've been working toward this ever since the firing of Dr. Dilday." He goes on to say that the faculty which so many of us loved, appreciated, respected and studied under were in reality "deeply entrenched ... moderates."
___Furthermore, he comments that some of them "have kind of hunkered down and gone underground." Who? Who are these "moderates" who are so distasteful they must be removed? Why are they so distasteful? Where is the evidence? What have they said and done? Are these not the professors we all said were conservative, well-grounded men and women?
___The truth is there are no "liberals" at Southwestern and never have been. However, there always have been those who did not subscribe to the "conservative resurgence." They were the ones who also believed all the Bible--every word of it--and still do. But now, Seaborn has decreed they must go. He offers no evidence of their "liberalism," only that they are "moderates"--whatever that means.
___Seaborn is right about one thing. Some professors already have left Southwestern. Many are going to Truett Seminary at Baylor University and Logsdon School of Theology at Hardin-Simmons University, where they continue to teach conservative, scriptural, Baptist beliefs--cherished by generations of Baptists, including men like George W. Truett, L.R. Scarborough and B.H. Carroll.
___I encourage you to send your sons and daughters to Truett Seminary and Logsdon School of Theology to be trained in Baptist doctrine and modern methods of effective evangelism, missions and worship that is Christ-centered and biblical.
___Bob Campbell is president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and was chairman of the Seminary Study Committee
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