Recently I posted comments about civility in debate, intending to get around to discussing ways to handle disagreement. I planned to talk about this post at Founders.org in which Dr. Tom Ascol aired negative remarks about Jerry Falwell. His words were prompted by Falwell’s statement against limited atonement during an address to prospective Liberty University students about a month ago.
But then I got bogged down, because the more I tried to figure out what was really going on, the bigger the monster got. I found that concerns went back at least a year and included rancor over a proposed debate between Dr. Ergun Caner, president of Liberty Theological Seminary, and Dr. James White. (I still haven’t discovered whether the debate ever happened, but no matter.)
I was hoping to salvage a few points in order to make a post, but then learned that, as of today, Falwell is no longer with us. (Thanks to a link, I think in a comment at Founders, to Challies.) May peace be to his memory.
So, I will put this project on hold. And I have hopes that this event might temper the declamations of some on issues of controversy within the Southern Baptist Convention.
In Memoriam:
The Reverend Jerry Falwell
August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007
