Downgrade at Southern Seminary: Postmodernism (Part II)
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🗓️ 21 May 2020
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Summary
Dr. Russell Fuller discusses the subject of Postmodernism, and Dr. Al Mohler's role in knowingly promoting and endorsing a book by Jonathan Pennington who advocated for the view, on the campus of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Documents Mentioned in This Video:
Russell Fuller's Questions for Dr. Pennington submitted to Dean
https://enemieswithinthechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Questions-for-Pennington.pdf
Jonathan Pennington's Book "Reading the Gospels Wisely
https://books.google.com/books?id=GirTSf0SDr8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=jonathan+pennington+reading+the+gospels+wisely&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjOpOCxjcXpAhWhlHIEHRv-BckQ6wEwAHoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
Al Mohler's Endorsement as one of the "10 Books Every Preacher Should Read
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/mohlers-10-books-every-preacher-should-read/
Jonathan Pennington's 2015 ETS Speech (1)
https://enemieswithinthechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Pennington-1.pdf
Jonathan Pennington's Revision of Speech (2)
(This was handed out to students. It includes a denial of Isaiah 53's Messianic interpretation. "As Crump points out over several pages, one is hard pressed to make convincing arguments that many key.")
https://enemieswithinthechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Pennington-2.pdf
Jonathan Pennington's Revision of Speech (3)
https://enemieswithinthechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Pennington-3.pdf
Jonathan Pennington's Revision of Speech (4)
https://enemieswithinthechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Pennington-4.pdf
Jonathan Pennington's Attempts to Clarify
https://enemieswithinthechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Pennington-Concerns.pdf
Russell Fuller's Speech at Full Professors Meeting Concerning Jonathan Pennington's Views
https://enemieswithinthechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Speech-at-Full-Professors-Meeting.pdf
Dr. Fuller's Separation Agreement
https://enemieswithinthechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Fuller-NDC.pdf
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you once again for being with me Dr Fuller to talk about the leftward drift of the Southern Baptist Convention and in particular what you saw at Southern Seminary. |
| 0:18.0 | Last time we talked a bit about higher criticism on the campus of Southern Seminary and I was hoping this time we could talk |
| 0:24.4 | about something else perhaps postmodernism and where you saw that you'd mention that in the first |
| 0:30.8 | interview I wanted to read for you just a clip from the Baptist |
| 0:35.1 | faith and message 2000. It says that scripture is the supreme standard by which |
| 0:39.0 | all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried. |
| 0:43.7 | From the Baptist Faith and Message 2000. |
| 0:47.6 | What is postmodernism? |
| 0:49.6 | Yeah, when you think of postmodernism, |
| 0:51.0 | it's an extreme skepticism and relativism that is very |
| 0:57.6 | suspicious of absolute claims or universal claims concerning objective reality, concerning morality, concerning truth, |
| 1:10.0 | concerning language, social progress, things like this. |
| 1:16.2 | So it's an extreme skepticism in this way. |
| 1:20.0 | Oftentimes, when it's applied to literature or when it's applied to scripture what you'll get is people |
| 1:26.0 | who will question things like a thorough intent. |
| 1:28.7 | They don't like a thorough intent. |
| 1:31.0 | And what they're what they're what they'll say is there's no one right way of doing biblical theology. |
| 1:37.0 | There's no one right way to read the text, a text of scripture. |
| 1:43.6 | And so instead of looking, |
| 1:45.0 | instead of trying to find a way to interpret scripture |
| 1:48.3 | that we can prove, that we can verify, so okay, |
| 1:52.0 | we want to prove that what Paul's teaching here is is actually what he's teaching can you show in other places in Paul or in the new testament |
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