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fpb ([personal profile] fpb) wrote2006-05-09 02:51 pm

You couldn't make it up dept. no.31: But if they appointed a creationist as Director of Science...

Boston College is supposedly a Catholic university.

It has recently appointed an atheist, member of a Universalist church, as its Director of Theology.

[identity profile] goreism.livejournal.com 2006-05-10 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Given that he's a professor of Hebrew Bible one wonders how he'd have the opportunity to teach about the Trinity anyway.

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2006-05-10 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Well, according to student reports (NOT the Lutheran professor you mention), he managed it in his very first lesson, so he must be pretty committed to his own vision of theology.