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A Semi-annual Report to Friends of Bethlehem College & Seminary
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HOW DARE WE CALL OURSELVES A COLLEGE?
Serious Joy FALL 2015VOL. VII, NO. 1
A Semi-annual Report to Friends of Bethlehem College & Seminary
THE ENDEARING QUALITIES OF AN UNDERGRADUATE UPSTART
Higher education is failing America. It is failing to serve the country in the way that it was intended to by producing men and women who have high character, who think deeply, and who feel a moral responsibility to uphold the truths and values that will benefit the greatest number of people over the longest period of time. Instead, it is producing graduates who are morally confused, shallow thinkers, uninformed regarding the important works of Western culture, history, and thought, who are easily swayed by weak arguments, and whose faith in God is either declining or destroyed by the persistent assaults on it throughout their educational experience. And along the way, they are being saddled with mountains of student loan debt. You might think I’m talking about secular education exclusively here, but unfortunately I’m not.
It has become increasingly evident that the educa-
tional institutions of today (both secular and reli-
gious) bear little resemblance to the institutions they
were 30 years ago. Today, these institutions are about
marketing, positioning, branding, political correct-
ness, financial survival, and giving the consumers
(students) what they think they want. So much of it
is about prestige, power, and prosperity, and the illu-
sive pursuit of vain, temporary happiness.
Even among Christian colleges and seminar-
ies, the pressures to conform to the cultural norms
are great. These schools have often felt the need to
compete with each other as well with their secular
counterparts for students, for resources, and for rec-
ognition. Unfortunately, in order to compete, they
often end up compromising, in some way, their orig-
inal mission and vision—sometimes even to the
point of abandoning belief in the Bible as God’s au-
thoritative, inerrant Word.
With both our general culture and our higher ed-
ucation institutions in decline, young people need to
be stronger and clearer in their thinking and their
faith than ever before. A college education must ad-
dress this need. In fact, above any other purpose, a
sound college education ought to be viewed primar-
ily as life training—the sort that equips students
with critical thinking skills and a thorough un-
derstanding of and embracing of a comprehensive
Christian worldview. This is what we do at Bethle-
hem College & Seminary. In fact, it was the percep-
tion that this life training approach to education
and training has largely disappeared that led us to
conceive of a college in the first place. We aim to be
a college truly focused on Jesus Christ as the most
important truth in the universe. Nothing is more
important, and nothing is more central, to living a
successful, satisfying, effective life of ministry and
work than knowing, loving, and treasuring him. All
other truths take second place.
So how have we approached this vision of cre-
ating a truly Christ-centered college that has an
astonishing level of student transformation and de-
velopment? The more comprehensive answer to this
question is found in the articles throughout this
edition of Serious Joy. You will hear from the facul-
ty members who are delivering this extraordinary
education.
Even with all of the challenges facing Christian
higher education, I am so encouraged by and delight-
ed at what the Lord is accomplishing here. This is
a college that the Lord is raising up precisely for the
challenging times we are facing today. And, we are
definitely not a Christian college for everyone. Howev-
er, you should seriously consider Bethlehem College if:
› You want to be challenged to learn from the great-
est writers and thinkers in history—all under the
umbrella of a thoroughly biblical worldview.
› You want to be challenged to grow in your faith
and to pursue maturity in Christ with the help of
a seasoned mentor.
› You want to develop skills in critical and analy-
tical thinking—to be able to think deeply about
any subject.
› You want to develop deep relationships with your
classmates in a small, intentional setting where
you’ll experience both the joys and the sorrows of
growth in Christian community.
› You want to be taught and discipled by an out-
standing faculty. Our faculty are marvelous ex-
amples of the scholar/pastor model of teaching
and ministering.
› You want to know the Word of God and be able to
rightly interpret it and ably apply it to all of life.
I have been in Christian higher education for over 30
years—both as a professor and as an administrator. I
have seen a lot of programs at a lot of schools in my
time, and I don’t believe there is anything compara-
ble anywhere to what we are doing at our college. I
truly believe this is one of the finest undergraduate
programs anywhere. I would put up our graduates
against the humanities or religion graduates of any
school in the country—it’s that strong.
If you’re still not convinced, let me invite you to
visit our school and sit in on some of our classes. I
believe you’ll be as impressed as I am.
FROM THE PRESIDENT
How Dare We Call Ourselves a College?
Tim Tomlinson, President, Bethlehem College & Seminary
“…above any other purpose, a sound college education ought to be viewed primarily as life training.”
EVENT
2016 Bethlehem Conference for Pastors + Church Leadersin Partnership with Desiring God
Monday, January 25–Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Minneapolis Convention Center
To register visit: www.bcsmn.edu
Featured speakers include John Piper, D.A. Carson, Jason Meyer, Léonce Crump II, Tim Keesee, and Os Guinness. Bring the entire pastoral team. Seminars will focus on pastors, elders, worship leaders, mission programs, women’s ministries, and church planting.
ACADEMIC DISTINCTION
Four New Ph.D.s
NEWS & EVENTS
Dr. John Beckman,
Assistant Professor of Old Tes-
tament, received a second Ph.D.,
in May, this one from Harvard
University for his work in Near
Eastern Languages and Civiliza-
tions. His dissertation was titled
“Toward the Meaning of the Bibli-
cal Hebrew Piel Stem.”
Dr. Travis Myers,
Assistant Professor of Church
History and Mission Studies,
received a Ph.D., in May, from
Boston University for his work in
History and Hermeneutics. His
dissertation was titled, “‘Get As
Near As You Can’: The Congrega-
tionalist Piety and Cross-
Cultural Ministry of John Eliot
(1604-1690).”
Dr. James McGlothlin
has joined the faculty as Assis-
tant Professor of Philosophy and
Christian Worldview. He received
his Ph.D., in 2014, from The Ohio
State University. His dissertation
was titled, “The Logiphro Dilem-
ma: An Examination of the Rela-
tionship Between God and Logic.”
Dr. Justin G. Taylor,
Trustee, alumnus of The Bethle-
hem Institute, received a Ph.D., in
June, from The Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary. His disser-
tation was titled “John Piper: The
Making of a Christian Hedonist.”
BETHLEHEM COLLEGE & SEMINARY2
WOVEN TOGETHER: BY TIM TOMLINSON
BETHLEHEM’S FOUR-YEAR APPROACH TO ABBREVIATING ADOLESCENCETWO PROFESSORS UNPACK A STRANGELY UNCOMMON
UNDERGRADUATE EXPERIENCE
WHAT WE ARE WHAT WE AREN’T
LIBERAL As in eager students of the knowledge and arts essential to human flourishing.
Christians invented the university, that institution devoted to pursuing truth in the Word and world. We are after the kind of education that makes a person, as C. S. Lewis says, “immune to the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the micro-phone of his own age.”
SERIOUS Life is short. Hell is hot. Make the most of the time.
Our aim is to produce men and women who are good for the world: equipped with the historical awareness and analytical skills to han-dle rapidly changing environments, the theological skills to eval-uate a rapidly changing culture, and the communication skills to engage an increasingly pluralistic society. We think education is part of your Christian obedience. Therefore, we take your education seriously. You should, too.
JOYFUL Christians that are worth their salt are more than superficially happy.
We’re Christian Hedonists down to our toes, pursuing our deepest satisfaction in Jesus. We’re on a quest for Joy, stalking it with a knife in our teeth, for it is a very dangerous quest. Like all races, the mara-thon of education must be run for the Joy set before us.
CHURCH-BASED We expect students to become members of our local church.
This means living with, learning from, and serving people quite dif-ferent from ourselves. The church is the temple of the living God, the body of Christ. So part of education is learning to be a living stone, a life-long, fruitful, and faithful member of Christ’s body.
CONFESSIONAL Our educational model consciously works from a reformed, baptistic confession of faith and focuses on both intellect and affections in personal development.
We want students to see their place in the one holy, catholic, apos-tolic church. Thus, they need to read the great thinkers of the past: Athanasius, Clement, Tertullian, Augustine, the Cappadocians, Macrina, Benedict, Anselm, Abelard, Aquinas, Luther, Melanch-thon, Calvin. You get the picture.
Joe Rigney, M.A., is Assistant Professor of Theology and Christian Worldview
Ryan Griffith, M.A., is Assistant Professor of Christian Worldview and Director of Integrated Curriculum
LIBERAL As in theologically trendy, socially progressive, and unhelpfully provocative.
As professors, we don’t aim to challenge students to be as clever, rev-olutionary, and hip as the cultural elite. Our raison d’etre is not to encourage students to buck the establishment, strike out on individu-alistic paths, or to regard themselves as the center of their own worlds.
TRIVIAL Life is the job. You only live once.
We unapologetically reject the idea that college should be an ex-tension of adolescence: fun, easy, with negligible responsibility and low accountability. It will take more than just “not flunking out” to earn a degree here, and you will gain much more than just great—if hazy—memories and some technical skills that depreciate as soon as you drive the degree off the lot.
TRITE Jesus is the answer. So what was the question?
Generic evangelical education tends to produce students who can bob merrily along in life, but have no meaningful answers for either the wonder or the terror of reality. Shallow biblical knowledge and pat answers leave students without roots or wings, easily uproot-ed and blown along by the winds of worldliness. There are enough bored and boring people in the world.
CHURCH-REPLACED Church? Who needs the church when we’ve got a chapel?
Too many Christian colleges subtly supplant the church, creating synthetic representations of reality that end up being remarkably unrepresentative. Add a dash of faddish ecumenicism and gradu-ates don’t even know what to look for when they try to find a church home after graduation, that is, if they look.
“EVANGENERIC” We resist a boilerplate statement of faith orthodox enough to be considered Christian, but broad enough to not count anyone out.
Generic evangelical Christianity suffers from a lack of rootedness. It tends to promote trendy, theological movements because it lacks the wisdom and historical knowledge to avoid making the same mis-take twice.
SERIOUS JOYFALL 2015 3
IN ONE ACCORD: CHURCH-BASED
WELL-EDUCATED PEOPLE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE HABITS OF MIND AND HEART TO GO ON LEARNING WHAT THEY NEED TO LEARN TO LIVE IN
A CHRIST-EXALTING WAY FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS: ASSOCIATE OF ARTS IN CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW • BACHELOR OF ARTS IN BIBLICAL & THEOLOGICAL STUDIES • BACHELOR OF ARTS IN HISTORY OF IDEAS
THE BETHLEHEM HABITS OF MIND AND HEART
“Since each Christian is a part of the entire body of Christ, given individual gifts for the ben-efit of the whole community, our students are taught to share with others what they come to learn of God and His world—the truth, goodness, and beauty they discover as well as their own faith, hope, and love.”
Matt Crutchmer, M.A. Instructor of Theology
Excerpted from Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God by John Piper, D.Theol., Chancellor and Professor of Biblical Exegesis
UNDERSTANDING
EVALUATING
FEELING
APPLYING
EXPRESSING
“We aim to think the author’s thoughts after him. Otherwise, education simply becomes a reflection of our own ignorance.”
“Understanding demands both skill and virtue; we dishonor others when we either con-demn or praise their words without having worked to understand them. Our students read difficult texts in all four undergraduate years, and we have the joy of watching them grow in both intellectual skill and intellectual virtues. Through the care with which they are ex-pected to handle texts, they are gaining wisdom.”
Josh Maloney, M.F.A. Assistant Professor of Composition and Christian Worldview
“We believe there is such a thing as truth and that with the compass of the Scriptures and the help of the Spirit, we can know it.”
“We believe that doxology is the proper aim of theology, and all of life, which is why faculty and students regularly begin rigorous classes on systematic theology, Greek and Hebrew exegesis, and classic literature with joyful singing.”
Brian Tabb, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies
“Since God is glorified in our emotional response to his glory and not just by seeing it and understanding it, we cannot be indifferent to
the emotional life of students, …”
“A well-educated person is growing in the wise application to life of all he learns.”
“Our aim at Bethlehem College & Seminary is to cultivate habits of heart and mind that help students express truth they have discovered so that its accuracy, clarity,
truthfulness, preciousness, and helpfulness are manifest.”
OBSERVING“Our teaching is designed to force students to see for themselves.
They must keep looking until they see things they did not see at first— in the Word and in the world.”
BETHLEHEM COLLEGE & SEMINARY4
WELL-EDUCATED PEOPLE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE HABITS OF MIND AND HEART TO GO ON LEARNING WHAT THEY NEED TO LEARN TO LIVE IN
A CHRIST-EXALTING WAY FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS: ASSOCIATE OF ARTS IN CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW • BACHELOR OF ARTS IN BIBLICAL & THEOLOGICAL STUDIES • BACHELOR OF ARTS IN HISTORY OF IDEAS
THE BETHLEHEM HABITS OF MIND AND HEART
Excerpted from Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God by John Piper, D.Theol., Chancellor and Professor of Biblical Exegesis
UNDERSTANDING
EVALUATING
FEELING
APPLYING
EXPRESSING
“We aim to think the author’s thoughts after him. Otherwise, education simply becomes a reflection of our own ignorance.”
“We believe there is such a thing as truth and that with the compass of the Scriptures and the help of the Spirit, we can know it.”
“Since God is glorified in our emotional response to his glory and not just by seeing it and understanding it, we cannot be indifferent to
the emotional life of students, …”
“A well-educated person is growing in the wise application to life of all he learns.”
“Our aim at Bethlehem College & Seminary is to cultivate habits of heart and mind that help students express truth they have discovered so that its accuracy, clarity,
truthfulness, preciousness, and helpfulness are manifest.”
OBSERVING“Our teaching is designed to force students to see for themselves.
They must keep looking until they see things they did not see at first— in the Word and in the world.”
“We train our students to have eyes of the intellect both wide open and keenly concentrated, to have minds that can range broadly over the entire scope of God’s magnificent Word and his complex world while also perceiving in intricate detail the significant nuances of any given text or topic before them.”
Travis Myers, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Church History and Mission Studies
“Our students are developing the ability to evaluate what is and what isn’t true by tenacious-ly and fairly analyzing every thinker, idea, or trend, by the compass of the Scriptures and with the help of the Spirit.”
James McGlothlin, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Christian Worldview
“Our men and women are learning not only to look closely at God’s Word and God’s world, but also to allow what they see to shape them as roommates, as churchgoers, as employees, as spouses and parents, and as citizens of their earthly city.”
Johnathon Bowers, M.Div. Assistant Professor of Theology and Christian Worldview
SERIOUS JOYFALL 2015 5
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D.A. CARSON, GEN. ED. ANDREW DAVID NASELLI,
ASST. ED.
Beating the College Debt Trap: Getting a Degree Without
Going Broke
ALEX CHEDIAK
Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus Through the Spiritual
Disciplines
DAVID MATHIS
Designed for Joy: How the Gospel Impacts Men &
Women, Identity & Practice
JONATHAN PARNELL & OWEN STRACHAN, ED.
The Supremacy of God in Preaching
Revised & Expanded
JOHN PIPER
Eternity Changes Everything: How to Live Now
in the Light of Your Future
STEPHEN WITMER
NEW BY FACULTY & ALUMNI AUTHORS
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A portion of your purchases on AmazonSmile, books or otherwise, will help provide students with affordable
tuition that lets them launch immediately into ministry without student loan debt.
Andy Naselli’s Helicopter, Bus, and TrowelSo 3,827 pages. That is the to-
tal tally of pages that Drs. Andy
Naselli and Jason DeRouchie
have assigned for reading in
their 26-page syllabus for the
capstone course, THEO 7510,
Biblical Theology: History of
Redemption. With the Bethlehem
College & Seminary’s website declar-
ing that its students “endeavor in all
of our intellectual inquiry to love God
with our minds by thinking deeply,”
is this page count simply a contradic-
tion in terms? How can any student go
deep when expected to go so wide in
his reading preparations for class?
But it is neither a cruel joke nor
a catastrophic expectation. In fact,
Naselli offers the seemingly massive
reading load, accompanied by care-
ful training in three levels of reading,
as a gift to his students. In addition to
teaching students to wrestle through
complex theological concepts and the
debates surrounding them, his cours-
es model for students how to practice
different kinds of reading, thereby
learning to read most economically:
to get the most from a text by giving
the greatest attention to texts that
merit the close reading while also fa-
miliarizing themselves with a wide
breadth of other supporting, conflict-
ing, or background arguments.
Naselli describes his three levels
of reading as survey, macro-reading,
and micro-reading. Survey reading
involves reading “quickly, noting
only the important points”—leaving
other, less crucial parts of the author’s
argument unread. He compares it to
a helicopter ride that offers a tourist
an aerial view of a city skyline. Macro-
reading requires reading every word
of a text but doing so at a quick pace,
just enough to understand the whole,
“like a bus tour of a city,” says Naselli.
Micro-reading is the reading level of
close, analytical scholarship. At this
level, Naselli encourages students:
“Rigorously evaluate what you read.
Engage with the text by marking it
up: specify where you strongly agree
or disagree or have questions.” In
micro-reading, Naselli explains that
students may metaphorically adopt
the pace of walking through a chap-
ter, the posture of sitting on a pas-
sage, or the labor of digging as with
a trowel in a paragraph or particular
sentence. He expects such reading to
take more time, thought, and energy
and chooses text for his students that
he believes will prove most helpful
to their knowledge of the subject at
hand and their class discussions.
Although Naselli articulates in
his syllabi which texts students are
to read at which level, including the
page counts and the amount of time
students might spend at each pace, he
hopes by modeling these levels that
students will begin to adopt such a
habit in their reading throughout the
rest of their lives, particularly in pas-
toral or scholarly vocations.
Beyond developing a nuanced
habit of reading, Naselli has seen five
distinct advantages for students in
the classroom as they use the three
levels of reading:
“It trains students how to read.”
In particular, Naselli is interested in
freeing the consciences of students
not to have to read every word of ev-
ery book he assigns.
“It exposes students to helpful tools.”
Naselli considers the levels of reading
as tools themselves and uses them to
introduce students to key arguments
and positions that they may return to
at a later date when they can look at
them in more detail.
“It improves class times.”
Because students read some passages
very closely, during class Naselli and
his students can carefully tease out im-
plications of certain texts together in
discussion instead of merely listing or
summarizing arguments in a lecture.
“It prepares students for pastoral
ministry.”
Students can use macro-reading and
survey reading to keep up to date
with current theological dialogues
without being paralyzed by the sheer
volume of new theological publica-
tions vying for their attention.
“It helps students complete
their reading assignments in a
reasonable amount of time.”
Here, the three levels of reading serve
students practically, enabling them
to get the most out of the two hours
they prepare, on average, outside
of class for every hour of class. Ac-
cording to Naselli, “Students greatly
appreciate it when I require them to
spend at least x minutes surveying a
particular resource.”
At first Naselli developed these
three levels of reading for himself,
honing them over time as he worked
on his two dissertations and edited for
Dr. Don Carson. “I simply had to do
it,” Naselli explained, “to get through
the number of books I needed to cov-
er. A single chapter of my dissertation
sometimes involved researching 300
different articles or books.”
Now as administrator of Theme-
lios, a theological journal, Naselli uses
these levels daily to process eight to
ten books that come across his desk.
“I catalog their major arguments, so
that I can access them easily when I
am teaching or writing.”
In this way, survey reading, macro-
reading, and micro-reading help
Naselli serve his students as well as
help him faithfully carry out his own
role as an editor and professor.
DATE CLASS TOPIC ASSIGNMENTS DUE (PRIOR TO CLASS UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED)
11/2 Mission Micro-read – Weight: 45% Macro-read – Weight: 40% Survey – Weight: 15% Other
Köstenberger, Andreas J. “Mission.”
NDBT 663–68. (6 pp.)
Köstenberger, Andreas J., and Peter T.
O’Brien. “Concluding Synthesis.” Pages
251–70 in Salvation to the Ends of the
Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission.
New Studies in Biblical Theology 11.
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press,
2001. (20 pp.) [on Populi]
Kaiser, Walter C., Jr. “Introduction”
(pp. xvii–xix) and the conclusion to
every chapter (pp. 7, 18, 26, 35–36, 48–49,
63–64, 74, 81–82) in Mission in the
Old Testament: Israel as a Light to the
Nations. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker
Academic, 2012. (15 pp.) [on Populi]10
Oberlin, Kevin Paul. “Table of Contents”
and “Conclusion.” Pages vi–ix, 234–45
in “The Ministry of Israel to the Nations:
A Biblical Theology of Missions in the
Era of the Old Testament Canon.” PhD
diss., Bob Jones University, 2006. (16 pp.)
[on Populi]
30 min. Schnabel, Eckhard J. Early
Christian Mission. 2 vols. Downers
Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004.
(1,628 pp.)
Pray; write reading response
An excerpt from Dr. Naselli’s syllabus exposing the three levels of required reading.
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We Thank God for YouLast month, I collaborated in the launch of a new multisite campus on the Central Coast
of California called Grace5Cities, as a part of the GraceCentralCoast network. California’s Cen-
tral Coast ranks #2 in the U.S. among communities with the most never-churched residents. Our
campaign towards our launch called people to “Discover Joy” at Grace5Cities; the campaign’s
kinship to Bethlehem is intentionally and joyfully obvious. After receiving an M.Div. and Th.M.
and having had the pleasure of serving as an Instructor for Christian Worldview at the under-
graduate level of Bethlehem College & Seminary, I am astounded at the privilege to so immedi-
ately extend the vision and mission of Bethlehem College & Seminary.
A huge part of what has made this move into ministry so immediate pertains to the absence
of a financial burden upon the completion of my formal “education in serious joy.” My wife and I,
our baby boy on the way (27 weeks), the ministry team at GraceCentralCoast, and all those who
will Discover Joy in Jesus through Grace5Cities are so very grateful for your role in making the
gospel go forth with such immediacy through your generosity towards the greatest cause.
Ben Collins, M.Div ‘13, Th.M. ‘15Grace5Cities Campus Pastor, Arroyo Grande, CA
From the President
How Dare We Call Ourselves a College?
In One Accord
Bethlehem’s Four-Year Approach to Abbreviating Adolescence
The Bethlehem Habits of Mind and Heart
To Study, Practice & Teach
Andy Naselli’s Helicoptor, Bus, and Trowel
IN THIS ISSUE
Serious Joy
THE ENDEARING QUALITIES OF AN UNDERGRADUATE UPSTART
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