Question about Candler/Emory

[radixlecti]

What does anyone know about the M.Div program at Candler/Emory overall?

Also, Where does the school fit on the Liberal/Conservative Spectrum?

[JonathanEdwards]

Where does the school fit on the Liberal/Conservative Spectrum?

No conclusive answers here, just food for thought.

I’ve no personal experience with Emory, but am given to understand it is ‘eclectic’ in regards to the categories you mention. While there are advantages to taking ministerial formation classes from someone in your own tradition, understanding what you believe is really enhanced by classes from another perspective. Learning that doesn’t challenge one’s preconceived notions, well, isn’t. I’m a committed Christian, but the best and most thought-provoking classes I’ve had were actually from outside that perspective. I’m not encouraging deliberately seeking an entire program taught entirely from a radically opposed point of view, but perhaps to avoid pigeonholing based on denomination or liberal/conservative political or even theological affiliation.