peter enns' suspension from westminster

Peter Enns's book Inspiration and Incarnation created a two-year theological battle that resulted in his suspension.
Sarah Pulliam posted 4/01/2008 04:05PM

Westminster Theological Seminary's board voted to suspend tenured professor Peter Enns last week after a two-year theological debate over his 2005 book, Inspiration and Incarnation.

[Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament
by Peter Enns
Baker Academic, 2005
197 pp. $17.99, paper]


The board chairman, the president, and the secretary of the board addressed a standing-room-only group of students for about 30 minutes Tuesday morning to discuss the board's decision.

The board voted 18-9 to suspend Enns, an Old Testament professor whose book created controversy on how to interpret the Westminster Confession of Faith, a 1646 document that the faculty must affirm.

Read below link for the rest of the article from Christianity Today:

Westminster Theological Suspension
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what is the westminster confession of faith? see the link below:

http://www.reformed.org/documents/wcf_with_proofs/

westminster seminary explains its beliefs:

http://www.wts.edu/about/beliefs.html

for reviews of enn's books:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2006/003/3.8.html

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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3817/is_200606/ai_n17176285

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Update (20/5/2008):
some more links to the debate. see tyler williams' response at:

http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2008/04/01/in-support-of-dr-peter-enns/

and dr jerry shepherd's email to the canadian evangelical theological association:

http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2008/04/04/more-support-for-dr-peter-enns/

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