[Magdalen] The Value of Seminary in a World Gone Mad | Kyle Roberts

[Scott Knitter]

A friend and former fellow parishioner just started at Berkeley-Yale
Divinity School and sent me a copy of all his syllabi on my request. He's
got tons of reading to do, including something like 12 books he needed to
have read before the first day of classes. Looks like a rigorous semester,
anyway.

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 8:09 AM Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Depends on the person and the seminary, I would think. My priest graduated
> from an Orthodox seminary and has a boatload of theology. Of course he was
> a philosophy major in college and had an interesting religious background
> before that, so I'm sure that makes a great deal of difference. Somewhere
> along the line he also picked up a social work minor too so he could do an
> "outside" job. He's one of the best educated people I know around here.
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 6:37 AM ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes and no, I think.
> > Someone close to me graduated from seminary a couple of years ago. He
> seems
> > to have learned almost nothing. No theology, no church history, damn
> little
> > homiletics.
> > Lots of social gospel, some of it quite bizarre.
> > Result: Nothing remotely resembling professional self-confidence.
> > -M
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, September 26, 2018, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Very timely and interesting article about a Seminary education in our
> > > polarized world today.
> > >
> > > Lynn
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unsystematictheology/2018/02/
> > > value-seminary-world-gone-mad/
> > >
> >
>


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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA