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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Alan Jacobs Article
I stumbled across this article today from First Things.
Ryan, thanks for posting this. I probably wouldn't have come across it otherwise, and it makes excellent reading. For the most part, it is exactly the sort of piece I expect from Alan Jacobs (and that's a good thing).
Alan makes one obvious (to me) omission: in his list of Wheaton's theological "DNA," he does not list the Anglican/Episcopal tradition. While that might seem like partisan quibbling from an episcopalian, I think it is a significant omission considering that Alan is Anglican, most of Joshua's former colleages in the (meticulously monitored) Philosophy department are Anglicans and Joshua went to Rome FROM Canterburry. Add to that the fact that, in my experience, most Anglicans USE the Bible in ways indistinguishable from the ways Catholics use Scripture, and there's a massive rhinocerous at the communion table that Alan, for some reason, chose not to discuss.
On a related note, how many of us think that Wheaton would hire us and/or give us tenure at this point. I think I'm sitting at an "unlikely" and a "no way," respectively.
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Ryan, thanks for posting this. I probably wouldn't have come across it otherwise, and it makes excellent reading. For the most part, it is exactly the sort of piece I expect from Alan Jacobs (and that's a good thing).
Alan makes one obvious (to me) omission: in his list of Wheaton's theological "DNA," he does not list the Anglican/Episcopal tradition. While that might seem like partisan quibbling from an episcopalian, I think it is a significant omission considering that Alan is Anglican, most of Joshua's former colleages in the (meticulously monitored) Philosophy department are Anglicans and Joshua went to Rome FROM Canterburry. Add to that the fact that, in my experience, most Anglicans USE the Bible in ways indistinguishable from the ways Catholics use Scripture, and there's a massive rhinocerous at the communion table that Alan, for some reason, chose not to discuss.
On a related note, how many of us think that Wheaton would hire us and/or give us tenure at this point. I think I'm sitting at an "unlikely" and a "no way," respectively.
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