SBC Professor Fired For Questioning Non-Traditional Views on Hell and Eternal Punishment – Baptist News Global
A Baptist university in Missouri has invited independent review of teaching in its religion department after firing a professor who accused colleagues of doubting whether sinners who die without Christ must suffer eternally in hell.Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri, announced Dec. 22 the commissioning of an external peer assessment committee to lead a university-wide dialogue “regarding faith and learning” including “deeper conversations and evaluations regarding orthodoxy.”
Clint BassIn November administrators fired Clint Bass, a tenured professor in the Courts Redford College of Theology and Ministry, for unprofessional conduct after he reportedly shared his concerns about “doctrinal instability” in the school with leaders of the Missouri Baptist Convention.An online petition with nearly 1,400 signatures links to documents suggesting “a lack of doctrinal alignment” with teachings of the Southern Baptist Convention and that professors “appear more aligned with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship,” a moderate group that differs with the SBC on matters such as women’s ordination and biblical inerrancy.Specific questions include whether the university harbors religion professors “who do not believe the traditional doctrine of everlasting punishment.”
Source: Professor’s firing leads to outside review of teaching at Baptist university – Baptist News Global
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