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Summer 2009 | Volume 67, No. 4
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Seminary Holds Spring Lecture Series
by Southwestern News Staff
Academic lectures at Southwestern Seminary called students to turn their minds to current debates in Old Testament theology and in Evangelicalism.
Evangelicalism should recover its confessional heritage, Richard Turnbull, Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, said during Southwestern’s Day-Higginbotham Lectures, Feb. 5-6.
“Evangelicalism has failed in the matter of discipleship,” Turnbull said during his second lecture. “We have omitted to teach our history and our doctrine. And the outcome is a scandal: Less Bible knowledge, less Bible reading, less providential dependency upon God.”
The Old Testament should be read as Christian Scripture, Kenneth Mathews, professor of divinity in Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School, said during Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Drumwright Lectures, March 5-6.
“The Gospel which we preach has its Bethlehem in the Old Testament Scriptures,” he said during his first lecture. “That which is of first importance, that which is our core message, finds its justification and rationale in the Old Testament Scriptures.”
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