Had occasion this weekend to learn about Seminex, something I had heard of in the 1970s. During the period of the events described, I myself was attending a more conservative seminary. Strange how things come around.  Seminex – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Seminex is the widely used abbreviation for Concordia Seminary in Exile (later Christ Seminary-Seminex). An institution for the training of Lutheran ministers, Seminex existed from 1974 to 1987. It was formed after a walk-out by dissident faculty and students of Concordia Seminary in St. …

This type of conflict is still going on – Peter Enns, whose book ”Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament” was helpful to me, was as a consequence of this book pushed out of Westminster Seminary a while back.

Different things I have read talk about people (like mainly youths in church groups) who are told that their entire faith hangs on certain assumptions, such as inerrancy, or creationism. When they begin to question some of these, they end up thinking therefore, they must throw everything out.

”I have a folder (electronic and paper) of people who used to be Christians but are now atheists, or were evangelical and now don’t know what they are, not because of people like me, but because the only options open to them when they encountered the world of modern biblical scholarship was “you either believe the Bible or you believe the critics.” This is an absurd dichotomy. To those knowledgeable about the very real and difficult challenges presented by biblical scholarship, and who are presented with these two options, there is no contest: the critics win. The question is whether these are the only two options available.” (Peter Enns blog)