Sunday, July 6, 2008

Episcopalians Study at UCC Seminary



Bishop Spong is the apostate who made some waves by channeling Bishop James Pike, attacking the basic tenets of the Christian faith.


Bruce Church has left a new comment on your post "Lefty Piscy Sems Losing Students, Funds, Faculty":

The Episcopal Church's Missouri Diocese uses UCC's Eden Seminary as their seminary:

http://www.diocesemo.org/whoweare/episcopalschoolforministry/edenseminary.htm

Eden seminary in St. Louis only has ~142 M.Div students, and even though it a UCC seminary, it has students from 19 other denominations, including, I kid you not, Universal Unitarians!

http://www.eden.edu/PartnersInMinistry/Ecumenical.aspx

Eden is one of seven seminaries of the United Church of Christ (UCC)....

• American Baptist
• African Methodist Episcopal
• Missionary Baptist
• General Baptist
• Christian Methodist Episcopal
• Disciples of Christ
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
• Episcopal
• Interdenominational
• Metropolitan Community Church
• National Baptist
• Non-Denominational
• Presbyterian Church (USA)
• Pentecostal
• Roman Catholic
• United Church of Christ
• United Methodist Church
• Universal Unitarian
• Other (denominations not represented by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS)

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GJ - The United Church of Christ is the shrunken remnant of a bunch of mergers, each one fueling even more apostasy. As I mentioned in the study of Enthusiasm today (Bethany Lutheran Worship), rationalism is a form of Enthusiasm that leads to Unitarianism in a generation or two.

I fail to see a doctrinal difference between the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ. The distinctions are historical rather than doctrinal.

Mother Angelica had it right when she said that liberals do nothing for the Church. They do not produce church vocations, missions, institutions, or anything else. They are parasites. When Notre Dame embraced the new theology, their seminary shriveled down to a dozen or so men.

Mainline seminaries merge time after time, flailing around, trying to survive by splicing weak schools together. The Baptist seminary with bragging rights for the Social Gospel Movement merged six ways from Sunday and remains D.O.A.

Colgate-Rochester-Crozer-Bexley Hall: a four-way merger. Now they have 100 students and 7 full-time faculty. But, Leonard Sweet graduated from one of those schools, so they must be good.