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| James White |
His ThM, Th.D. and D.Min. degrees from Columbia Evangelical Seminary (formerly Faraston Theological Seminary), an unaccredited online school.[5][6][7] The legitimacy of White's academic credentials has been questioned.[8]
The point of a real doctorate is to spend a lot of time studying, listening to lectures, and debating with fellow students on germane topics.
It is bad enough when people like Lawrence Otto Olson (D.Min. Fuller Seminary) pretend they have an earned doctorate when it is just a master's degree about a favorite fad, like Church Growth. I am glad that my work at Notre Dame and Yale helped me to ferret out the facts and learn how to put arguments together honestly.
Olson will not answer questions in his class unless he is addressed as "Dr. Olson." That is the state of the clergy today. However, it is better to have the background without the degree than to have the phony degree without any cause for it.
Stan Hauerwas asked me what I wanted to do with a PhD. I said, "Write books and articles." He said, "You have to have a degree then. It is the union card for publishing."
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| Stan Hauerwas grew up as a bricklayer. He earned a number of degrees at Yale, including the PhD. He was let go at Augustana College, got a teaching job at Notre Dame, and moved on to Duke University. He was born in 1940. |
