Several folks have emailed me regarding this article about Westminster Seminary.
Let me say first off that I have a lot of respect for Westminster Seminary and always have. It’s a rigorous place. The students are well trained and I’ve had the pleasure of visiting the campus a number of times. The scholarship at Westminster is first rate and I’ve been blessed to know many fine graduates. That being said, I’m saddened by the way Pete Enns is being treated (and not just because he’s a fellow Messiah grad).
The book in question which has created the controversy is a very responsible piece of scholarship. I don’t know that I’d want to use the metaphor of Incarnation for understanding the Scriptures, but still I like the book. And at a place like Princeton Seminary, Pete would be in the conservative camp. He believes the Bible is the inspired Word of God. He trusts its authority. In his book he attempts, not to undermine biblical authority, but to help pious evangelicals who want to believe in the Bible’s reliability and authority but struggle with issues surrounding its origins and background. For this Professor Enns ought to be lauded, not tried.