Baptist Colleges Cut Church Ties

Feeling Strains, Baptist Colleges Cut Church Ties - New York Times

“The convention itself in its national and state organizations has moved so far to the right that previous diversity on the faculty and among the trustees is no longer possible,’’ said Bill Leonard, dean of the Divinity School at Wake Forest. “More theological control of the curriculum and the faculty has been the result.’’

David W. Key, director of Baptist Studies at the Candler School of
Theology at Emory, put it more starkly. “The real underlying issue is
that fundamentalism in the Southern Baptist form is incompatible with
higher education,’’ Professor Key said. “In fundamentalism, you have
all the truths. In education, you’re searching for truths.’’