Time for Religious Seminary Mills to end...

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by b4cz28, Mar 7, 2016.

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  1. Helpful2013

    Helpful2013 Active Member

    There are plenty of ATS accredited seminaries and divinity schools that do not teach orthodox Christianity. As Neuhaus pointed out above, you are mixing two distinct issues.
     
  2. heirophant

    heirophant Well-Known Member

    In order to be considered for accreditation by ATS, an applicant school has to be either Christian or Jewish. It won't accredit schools that are neither Christian or Jewish. It's true that ATS tries to be non-denominational within those limits. For example, it accredits the two Unitarian-Univeralist seminaries. Today the UU's are Christian only by courtesy, but historically they are very much part of the Christian tradition, if a bit unorthodox.

    That's about as far as ATS is willing to go, though.
     
  3. Helpful2013

    Helpful2013 Active Member

    Anyone claiming that an institution must claim some vague Judeo-Christian affiliation in order to apply to ATS is doing so fairly. I am disputing the claim that Christian orthodoxy has anything to do with ATS’s boundary-setting. Radically unorthodox teachings are present at lots of the trendier ATS-accredited institutions around the US.

     
  4. Garp

    Garp Well-Known Member

    Agreed. Orthodox (small o) biblical belief has nothing to do with ATS accreditation.
     
  5. heirophant

    heirophant Well-Known Member

    I don't think that Valve is talking about ostensible Christian schools, however unorthodox. He's talking about flat-out non-Christian sorts of religiosity. And there aren't any specialized accreditors for that. RA might sometimes be the only alternative to remaining unaccredited.
     
  6. GregWatts

    GregWatts Active Member

    If I study Christian theology at a school that doesn't require a faith statement, I am free to challenge academically anything within Christian theology.

    Schools that require a faith statement put certain types of inquiry out of bounds.

    Our these the same type of degree?
     

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