Four prominent professors resigned from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, in early November, only to be named faculty members of the new B.H. Carroll Theological Institute started by former Southwestern leaders.
The faculty members who resigned are Bruce Corley, professor of New Testament; Stan Moore, professor of church music and acting dean of the school of church music; Budd Smith, professor of foundations of education; and James Spivey Jr., associate professor of church history and associate dean of the seminary’s Houston extension campus.
Corley was named president of the B.H. Carroll Institute, an alternative center for theological training to be based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The other three were named the initial faculty. The appointments are effective Jan. 1.
Spivey will teach historical theology at the Carroll Institute. Smith will teach Christian education. Moore, a former missionary to Brazil, will teach church music.
The new institute, named for the founder of Southwestern, will use a church-based teaching model, the organizers said. Instead of a residential campus, the institute will utilize the resources of up to 100 “teaching churches.”
Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, site of the Nov. 4 press conference, was named the first teaching church.
The institute will have a board of directors, seek accreditation and use the Internet for some instruction, organizers said.
No site for the administrative center has been selected, they said. A first-year budget of $400,000 is anticipated.
(ABP)
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