Atlantic. \u00a0<\/em>It showed that she had been a \u201cmark,\u201d a naif \u201cplayed\u201d by a skillful shyster.<\/p>\nThe scholarly world is furious. \u00a0Harvard historian of early Christianity Karen King is calling\u00a0on Wheaton College to dismiss this professor as an amateur unworthy of her title as full professor. A scholar\u00a0at the University of Chicago Divinity School who did not want to give his name told reporters, \u201cWe always suspected that evangelicals were intellectual lightweights. \u00a0Now we have proof. \u00a0After all, Wheaton is the best that evangelicals have, and this professor held an endowed chair in biblical studies!\u201d<\/p>\n
Willi Marxsen, famed professor of early Christianity at prestigious Tubingen University in Germany, wrote in Der Spiegel<\/em>, \u201cThis so-called scholar has given all of us true scholars a bad name. \u00a0The American government should challenge the accreditation of Wheaton College.\u201d<\/p>\nA Catholic scholar told the\u00a0New York Times,\u00a0<\/em>\u201cI\u2019m relieved that it wasn\u2019t a conservative Catholic academic. \u00a0Otherwise my colleagues in the profession would be crowing that this proves you cannot be orthodox and\u00a0a good scholar at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\nIf you opened the links above, you have realized by now that the naive scholar played by a cool operator was not an evangelical at Wheaton College but Karen King herself, holder of the oldest endowed chair in the United States, the Hollis Chair of Divinity at Harvard University.<\/p>\n
If she had indeed been from Wheaton\u2013or Abe Maria University\u2013the uproar might\u00a0have been similar to what I imagined above.<\/p>\n
Instead there has been stunning silence from the academic world, and even public support\u00a0from her dean.<\/p>\n
Go figure.<\/p>\n
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