{"id":852,"date":"2008-08-14T13:41:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T21:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/08\/14\/on-further-review\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T13:41:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T21:41:24","slug":"on-further-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/08\/14\/on-further-review\/","title":{"rendered":"on further review&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few more thoughts on my <a href=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/07\/29\/so-is-this-representative-of-dbts\/\" target=\"_blank\">DBTS post<\/a>. (From the department of &#8220;can&#8217;t leave well enough alone&#8221;).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The answer to my initial question is &#8220;Yes&#8221;.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>If you care to check the thread where I interact with DD, you will see that my question, &#8220;is this characteristic of DBTS&#8221; must be answered, &#8220;yes.&#8221; Now, what we do with that, what it means for the future of fundamentalism, where we go from here&#8230; those remain open questions. Uncertainty reigns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ecumenical is as ecumenical does.<\/strong>\n<p>If such conferences are purely academic, no hint of compromising fundamentalist philosophy as a result, no chance of confusing the masses, then I wonder&#8230; I wonder if other schools, say, the University of Chicago Divinity School, ever have academic lecture sessions on church history that a fundamentalist might like to participate in? Nothing ecumenical about it, of course, pure academia.<br \/><font color=\"#ffffff\">&#8230;<\/font>  <\/p>\n<li><strong>Elitism.\n<p><\/strong>Is it possible that I, as a pastor of a small local church, might also get involved in some endeavour that has nothing to do with ecumenical matters, but does involve association with Christians of other persuasions? Or would I be looked at askance by my fundamentalist brethren? Like say I was invited by a local evangelical Bible college to present my expertise on &#8216;the history of fundamentalism,&#8217; for example. What would my fundamentalist friends think of that? Would my mission board and supporting churches heartily approve? <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, we are told to accept this as normal academic behaviour when one of the leading fundamentalist seminaries does it. It seems as if the bigger the name, the more one can get away with. Is that how it works?<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<li><strong>Equivocation is not an answer.\n<p><\/strong>When a politician side-steps direct questions and gives evasive or partial answers, what do we conclude? Should we conclude anything different when it is a well known seminarian? Or am I just being petulant?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is one more aspect of this discussion that I&#8217;d like to comment on, but it will have to await a future post.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/don-sig27.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few more thoughts on my DBTS post. (From the department of &#8220;can&#8217;t leave well enough alone&#8221;). The answer to my initial question is &#8220;Yes&#8221;.If you care to check the thread where I interact with DD, you will see that my question, &#8220;is this characteristic of DBTS&#8221; must be answered, &#8220;yes.&#8221; Now, what we do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[37,71,44],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-dK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}