Catholic and Enjoying It!
our local university “in the Jesuit tradition” is looking for somebody to replace their last New Testament prof (many of you may remember her). Here’s the ad:
Seattle University* Department of Theology & Religious Studies invites applicants for an anticipated Assistant Professor, tenure-track position in *New Testament & Christian Origins*. The expected start date is September 2010. Ph.D. required. Primary teaching responsibilities will be undergraduate courses, such as the Gospel of Jesus Christ, John, Paul, Synoptic Gospels, Women and the New Testament, and Apocalyptic Literature, as well as occasional “special topics” offerings. Opportunities for graduate level teaching. A grounding in Catholic biblical scholarship and evidence of teaching and scholarly excellence are required. We are particularly interested in applicants with expertise in liberation, feminist, African-American, Latino/a, Asian, or ecological hermeneutics.
If you are wondering how they wound up with a woman who thought she was both Muslim and an Episcopal cleric teaching NT, wonder no more. You see, as highly contemporary academics who have undergone the cerebral cortex alteration called deconstuctionism (a process that renders intelligent people fools) they have accepted completely the current fashion that texts can tell us nothing about the actual thoughts of the writer. Therefore, all that is of interest is how those text make contemporary scholars feel about their own pet obsessions. We can’t actually know anything about the New Testament, but we can know plenty about what Pavlovian responses the New Testament triggers in professor who feel a need to subject their students to agitprop about liberation, feminist, African-American, Latino/a, Asian, or ecological schools of dogmatic preaching.
And that is why I would *never* send my kid to Seattle U. You are absolutely guaranteed to emerge from a course in theology there stupider than when you went in.
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