In what is apparently another political bid, a letter was disseminated in the mailboxes of all the students which did three fairly amazing things. The first is that it unfairly caricatured the nature of the student demonstration. The claim the letter made was that they applied to have a representative from the systematic/historical theology departments (e.g. the heresy hunters) to speak against Enn’s at the demonstration which was in favor of Enns. The letter said this request was declined. The actuality is that this request was returned with a statement that “unless they had one representative from each side it would be unfair and that if the Hist. Theo. department wanted to prepare a statement it would be read EVEN THOUGH the other side would not get to have a statement be read.” Instead of presenting a prepared statement the historical theological department decided to directly circumvent the student demonstration and put a letter in everyone’s mailbox denouncing the original resolution passed in December as being misrepresentative, implying the demonstration was unfair and laying out some fairly harsh language.
Secondly, and almost hilariously, it presented their side as a struggling minority. It would seem that they are the oppressed party in this debacle. This represents either a psychotic break from reality or a lot of spin. The wages of spin indeed!
Finally, the letter formally accused Enns of heresy, which means (I would assume) he is going to hell, and so am I and anyone who agrees with Enns, apparently. There is nothing like being called a heretic by my esteemed professors. The language of this letter is damning and lays all the cards on the table. As I write the board is meeting to either exonerate Dr. Enns or cast the bull ex-communicatio against him.
Updates to follow…
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So today in my mailbox at Westminster I got a letter from Dr. Lillback. Well, not actually a letter as he probably wouldn’t recognize me as a student, but a form letter. You (if you are a student) got one as well. This letter reads like a cross between Bill Clinton’s infamous “what does ‘is’ mean” speech during Monicagate and a fund raising letter for Benny Hinn Ministries. In short its appears that Lillback is feigning a left of spiritual culpability and countering with his intended frontal assault at the board meeting. His blame is found, according to him, with the fact that he has not been more forthright with releasing information to the students. The most interesting thing about this is that the letter wasn’t accompanied by anything else. There was no explanation of the events over the last three years in the letter, and no hint of what will happen from his end. After the mea culpa I would have thought that there would have been a little ”dico hunc” but no, zip, nada….just silence. I, therefore tend to interpret this not as a sincere move, but as a politically timed jab,keeping us in suspense just a bit longer, so the board can meet and they can fire Enns and begin to turn the seminary into another RTS. Dr. Lillback, I mean come on man. I’m not a genius but this just doesn’t seem horribly genuine. Release the report you have already prepared for the board as well as the majority opinion drafted by the faculty in support of Enns. Lets read it and discuss it before the board meets. Don’t just talk about “transparency” BE TRANSPARENT! Otherwise I’m really going to struggle to believe you. As my daddy used to say…I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night.
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