Another Blog!

Another theological blog. If the writer of Ecclesiastes were writing today, he would say, "Of the making of blogs there is no end." However, as a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, and given the amount of verbige about the school in the blogosphere these days, I thought I would add to it. I don't know everything about the latest crisis over Peter Enns, but I will share some thoughts about that eventually. For now, I want to offer testimony in support of the seminary since so many are criticizing the school.

I attended WTS from 1976 to 1980, receiving the MAR in Biblical Studies in 1979, and the Th.M in Church History in 1980. Like many, I learned a lot in my classes. I received a whole new perspective on how to read the Bible from professors whom others love to bash. Most of my professors were second generation WTS grads, having studied under most of the original founders of the seminary. John Frame did a good job of introducing us to Van Til. He also helped me move from a dispensational view of Scripture to the covenantal view, especially as developed by Meredith Kline. Frame has a high view of Scripture and helped me see how the covenantal view strengthed the inspiration, inerrancy and infallibility of Scripture as God's word to his people.

Ray Dillard, in addition to teaching us Hebrew, taught a class in OT that helped me to really understand the OT for the first time by understanding its redemptive-historical function. Our readings included Kline, Murray, and E.J. Young. Dillard approached the OT as God's word and accurate in its teachings and content.

O.P. Robertson further convinced me of the covenantal approach to Scripture, especially as Scripture points to Christ. From Robertson, Dillard, and Gaffin I came to understand how the OT points toward Jesus and finds its fulfillment in him.

All of this is to say that I graduated from WTS with a high view of Scripture in terms of its inspiration, inerrancy and infallibility.