On Graduate Theological Education

In response to our earlier post from a former CCU student now enrolled at the master's level at a major, mainline Protestant seminary, we received another email from a former CCU student now enrolled in a PhD program at a major university in the UK. Once again, we have redacted to obscure identities:

i also found your email from a student to be real interesting too and i'm glad you put it on there.... i can only echo that i found the same true for phd work. [another CCU professor] and you repetitively warned me about not thinking too highly of things over here [in the UK] and [the other professor] in particular told me i would be really surprised that most people studying with me [in the PhD program] aren't further along. i've found that to be decidedly the case, to the point that there are several people with whom i'm colloquial and friendly but don't even attempt to have an academic conversation. obviously, there are plenty of really smart people here as well. however, there's a student here from [well-known evangelical seminary] and one from [another well-known evangelical seminary], and i'm startled all the time at how naive they are, from both an academic and a faith perspective. i'm just saying that it has been the case that the faculty of the biblical studies dept. in cbc and cbs most certainly did prepare me in a way that many of my colleagues were obviously not prepared. i don't pretend to think that everyone escapes ccu with that experience, but i agree with the person that wrote that email, for those that want it, it's available.

Cincinnati Christian University: proud to inculcate its students with that unmistakably SWNIDish outlook.