We all know of theological colleges which have left their biblical moorings and gone liberal. But can the reverse happen? Can a liberal college be turned around, back to thorough going biblical evangelicalism?
The answer is ‘Yes’. The remarkable story of what has occurred in the last two decades at Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky shows that, under God, it can be done. EN interviewed Dr. Bruce Ware, Professor of Theology at Southern, and got him to tell the story.
EN: What was the college like 20 years ago?
BW: The college was thoroughly liberal. In the classrooms the theology of Rudolf Bultmann, with its anti-supernaturalism and ‘demythologising’ of the Gospels was taught. There were a tiny number of evangelicals on the staff. But even the ‘best’ of the rest were Barthian, denying that Scripture is God’s Word.
