Loading ...Seminary dean: Calvary was God’s plan
flockwoodTimothy George, the Dean of Beeson Divinity School and a leading Southern Baptist, sums up his feelings about bishop-elect Kevin G. Thew Forrester’s at-one-ment theology in seven words:
Dear Mr. Lockwood:
Thank you for sending an email to Dr. George. He asked that I relay his responses to you. They are noted in bold print.
Source: The Holy Bible
1.) Do you believe it was God’s will or plan for Jesus Christ to
come to earth and die on the cross? Yes
2.) Is this a peripheral point of Christian doctrine? No
Is it heretical to teach that the crucifixion wasn’t part of God’s plan? Yes
3.) Could you support the ordination of anyone who teaches that it wasn’t God’s will or plan for Jesus Christ to come to earth and die on the cross? No
Respectfully,
Le-Ann Little
Office of the Dean
Timothy George, Dean
Beeson Divinity School
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:41 am
I’m not sure what this proves, other than that Mr. George is an evangelical, which we already knew. The web page for Beeson Divinity School proclaims it to be an evangelical school. You could send a hundred emails to evangelicals and get the same response. By the same token, if you sent the same email to a hundred Episcopal theologians, you’d get a hundred different responses. That’s the difference between us and them.