The Church of God Pentecostal Theological seminary is an assembled liberal Pentecostal faculty. I don’t see any conservative theological scholars. As any group of scholars there are degrees of views so that each is not as liberal/conservative as the others.
What are your thoughts on this? Maybe you think they are conservative. Tell us!
Cheryl Bridges Johns is Professor of Discipleship & Christian Formation at the Pentecostal Theological Seminary. Her published works include Pentecostal Formation: A Pedagogy Among the Oppressed and Finding Eternal Treasures. She is a past-president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. She has be…
Some are conservative. A very diverse group and some outstanding teachers. I do have questions as to practical ministry education such as development of healing and deliverance ministries in the local church and evangelism in the local church. Who teaches or trains leaders in ministry practice?
The word liberal has many meanings, including a broadening of ones knowledge and experience and generally demonstrates a more tolerant attitude toward others. It also shows a willingness to change and the humility to acknowledge that our forefathers didn’t always have a perfect understanding. A reading of the book of Acts shows a more liberal understanding and of tolerance in almost every chapter. So to have a higher school of learning means that we should expect that they will have read books and developed their thinking to a much higher level than we have seen before. Why not embrace it, thank God for it and try to learn from them and from the graduates that they send out?