Reasons for backing the not-posh theological college
The Reformed constituency in the Church of England needs to get solidly behind the end-of-Piccadilly-line Oak Hill, rather than steering its ordinands towards ‘evangelical’, liberal leaning theological colleges in old universities. Here are some reasons why from a parish plodder:
Julian Mann
* Oak Hill is the only dog on the track. Our constituency needs a distinctively Reformed evangelical ministerial training centre in the Church of England to nourish us with the best possible theological water supply and enable us to have a real, positive influence for the gospel in the wider church and in post-Christian Britain. The influence of the independent Kingham Hill Trust allows for evangelical succession in Oak Hill’s principal. Of course, Richard Turnbull is doing a fantastic job as principal of Wycliffe Hall in Oxford. But, without the safeguard of an independent trust, Wycliffe will be the victim of ecclesiastical Buggins’s turn. With respect, what planet are you on if you think Wycliffe won’t go to a Fulcrum ‘evangelical’ when Dr. Turnbull goes?
