Journal: Central Bible Quarterly
Volume: CENQ 03:1 (Spring 1960)
Article: Nothing To Explain -Nothing To Hide
Author: Richard V. Clearwaters

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CenQ 3:1 (Spring 1960) p. 29

Nothing To Explain -Nothing To Hide

Richard V. Clearwaters

President Central Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary
and Pastor of Fourth Baptist Church, Minneapolis

In 1956 when the Central Conservative Baptist Seminary was called into existence by the request of 31 students the frame of reference for the school reproduced on the next page was described and detailed by the President, Dr. R, V. Clearwaters, and accepted by students, faculty, and trustees. Since those beginning days there has never been a question in public relations or in the inner operation of the school on any of these vital issues that are becoming so deadly and devisive today to so many other schools. We believed then and are more convinced now that a FRAME OF REFERENCE is just as necessary and mandatory in the operation of a Seminary as it is to a chemistry laboratory or a study of farming. We will take up each of these ten principles and discuss them briefly with pertinent contrasts and comparisons.

The Principle Of Education

Notice, “This institution is committed in Christian education ...,” not in education merely, or religious education! Christian teaching is the climax of all teaching! General education deals with the facts, knowledge, and skills as we proceed to observe, collect, classify, and interpret. General teaching presents possibilities, alternatives, and opportunities. Christian teaching guides decisions; it does not provide a smorgasbord of facts for picking and choosing. The general teacher transmits ideas with which he may be only toying as a skilled juggler. The Christian teacher shares an experience. General education can answer “What?” and “How?” but Christian education must answer “Why?”.

In the days of Gladstone and Horace Mann men boasted, “The little red schoolhouse will make the world safe for democracy.” History has proved conclusively that, instead of education solving the problems of mankind it has only intensified and multiplied them. We need not wonder why; the problems of mankind are not and never have been intellectual, instead they have always been

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Purpose

The purpose of Central C.B. Seminary is to prepare, at the graduate level, men and women whom God has called to His service for Conservative Baptist witness and work at home and abroad. It proposes to train these in the faith “once for all delivered to the saints” in order that they may emulate the Savior who “grew in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man.”

In more detail this purpose is accomplished and implemented by observing the following pri...

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