Reformed Theological Seminary

This week we come to question two, and I am delighted to be joined today by Dr Ligon Duncan.

Ligon is the Chancellor and CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary, based in Jackson, Mississippi, and he's the John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology.

A long-standing friend of the banner, he is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, and from 1996 to 2013, he served as Senior Pastor of First Presbyterian Church.

Ligon, thank you so much for joining us on the podcast today.

From my book, I write, while many of the earliest church fathers held views we would now label premillennial, the historical record is neither uniform nor simple.

Charles Hill of Reformed Theological Seminary builds a compelling case that early figures such as Ignatius, a disciple of John, Polycarp, the pastor of Smyrna, Smyrna, Clement of Rome, Barnabas, Hippolytus wrote in ways consistent with amillennialism, and later there is no dispute.

Augustine, Athanasius, Luther, and Calvin articulated unmistakably amillennial readings of Scripture.

My point is, like, we...

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And over the last couple of weeks, we've had at least one member of our group on the Nyquil-Daequil Cycle.

Now, this is Greg Lanier.

Greg Lanier is the professor of New Testament and Reformed Theological Seminary.

And he knows Michael Kruger.

And he was asked this year, he asked himself, would he preach it? Would he preach John 73 through 8 and 11? And his answer was no.

We'll be right back.

and we are back and we're having an incredible time dialoguing with a man himself james snap we're talking about the pericope adultery the woman caught in adultery we're having a great time does that do those verses belong in the bible do you have them in your bibles if you do you got a good bible and brother take it away keep keep on where you're where you where you left off all

right Well, even though there was a symposium at Wake Forest in 2016, like I was saying, that would bring this to some kind of resolution, there are still people saying they won't preach these verses like Greg Lanier of Reformed Theological Seminary.

Wow.

He's just the kind of man that he was.

You will remember, Ryan, that I actually got to serve under him when I came to RTS because he was the interim pastor at Trinity Presbyterian Church here in town in Jackson, Mississippi.

And the first day that I walked on campus as a professor, he put his arm on my shoulder and said, boy, you're going to be my assistant.

And I said, yes, sir, because that's what Southern boys say to their parents.

to their boyhood pastor.

And so I got to be under Mr. Reed as a boy, but also as a young man serving at RTS.

And it was just a blessing to see him minister.

And then Paul Settle became the pastor of the church.

They were trying to promote his book.

And so he came out, and we were walking down Pearl Street Mall, We were talking about Bigfoot and some friends that he knew, one particular professor actually at the Reformed Theological Seminary in, I think, Orlando, who was like this big Bigfoot guy.

And as we were talking about that, he said, you know, I have an idea for a podcast.

I was wondering if you want to be on it.

So that's a huge, more than 50% decline.

RTS, Reformed Theological Seminary, is an example of a seminary that has tried to adapt by becoming more conservative in its expression.

But also in its in its process of expression, like opening up and becoming more creative in ways that it's providing education.

So what does that look like for them? They've got multiple campus expressions, think smaller, more frequent campuses located throughout the U.S.