SEBTS Provost Endorses Revoice Founder

At some point Russell Moore and the ERLC need to come out of the closet and own the Revoice movement. From the early revelations of the radical LGBT+ Thriving inaugural event in 2018, the deep ERLC ties have been evident and continue to unfold. ERLC Fellow & close Russell Moore friend, Karen Swallow Prior, endorsed the radical event from day one. Consultant for the ERLC on prison reform and family ministries, Brandon Polk, is a Revoice leader and speaker.

Recently, ERLC’s Andrew Walker was revealed to be very close friends with Revoice leader Matthew Lee Anderson, even choosing Anderson to speak for and represent him and the ERLC in a Mormon/interfaith conference redefining the faith communities approach to LGBTQ+ issues.

SEBTS PROVOST AND INTERSECT PROJECT LEADER AND KERN FAMILY FOUNDATION FUNDING LEADER ENDORSES REVOICE LEADER NATE COLLINS

BRUCE ASHFORD PROMOTED NATE COLLINS/REVOICE FOUNDERS IN 2017 BOOK

Nate Collins' All But Invisible is a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion about Christianity, sexuality and gender. Collins holds a traditional Christian sexual ethic but argues that many conservative Christians are, unfortunately, unaware of the ways that cultural Christianity in North America can make it difficult for gay people to live out the traditional sexual ethic. For the sake of our Christian witness, it is critical that we identify these roadblocks to faithfulness and remove them. All But Invisible is not the first word or the last word, but it is an important word. Even if you are not persuaded on every point, as I am not, you will be grateful you read this book.

- Bruce Ashford

Professor of theology and culture, provost and dean of faculty, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

LET THAT ENDORSEMENT AND THE REALITY THAT SEBTS PROVOST AND DEAN OF FACULTY/ ERLC RESEARCH FELLOW IS PRAISING REVOICE FOUNDERS' 2017 BOOK

BRUCE ASHFORD ACADEMIC FOCUS IN HIS DISSERTATION AND MANY OTHER WRITINGS IS PHILOSOPHER LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Ashford’s ETS presentation 2007 on Wittgenstein, who is also the topic of his SEBTS doctoral dissertation. (More on this in a minute)

LEFT WING TEACHING TOLERANCE FOR LGBTQ+ IN K-12 CITES WITTENSTEIN AMONG ITS NOTABLE GAYS IN HISTORY

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APPENDIX B

LGBTQ HISTORICAL FIGURES

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

A prominent 20th century philosopher

whose work influenced future theories on

the philosophy of mind and language.

WHO IS BRUCE ASHFORD ?

For Starters, according to his bio, Bruce Ashford is an elder at current reigning SBC President J D Greear's church.

“He is an elder at The Summit Church (Raleigh-Durham, NC).”

“Dr. Ashford is on Sabbatical for all of 2019. The acting Provost is Dr. Keith Whitfield.

EDUCATION

B.A., Campbell University

M.Div., Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Ph.D., Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

BIO

“Dr. Ashford has been teaching at Southeastern since 2003 and became the provost in 2013. His goal in teaching is to encourage his students to bear witness to the truth, goodness and beauty of the gospel and to work out its implications in all facets of their lives and in all dimensions of culture. Ashford defended his dissertation on “Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Impact on Anglo-American Theology,” is the co-author of One Nation under God: A Christian Hope for American Politics (B&H, 2015), the author Every Square Inch: An Introduction to Cultural Engagement for Christians (Lexham, 2015), and is the editor of Theology and Practice of Mission (B&H, 2011). His primary interest is public theology; his secondary interests include philosophy of education, theology of mission, theological method, and contemporary theology”

FROM ASHFORD'S SEBTS CURRICULUM VITAE

Teaching & Administrative Experience

 Provost / Dean of the Faculty, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary,

November 2012 –

 Professor of Theology & Culture, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary,

2015-present.

 Associate Professor of Theology & Culture, Southeastern Baptist Theological

Seminary, 2010-2015.

 Dean, The College at Southeastern, 2009-2012

 Director, The Lewis A. Drummond Center for Great Commission Studies,

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005-2008.

ASHFORD’S DISSERTATION TOPIC (MORE ON WITTGENSTEIN IN A MOMENT)

Ph.D. Dissertation

 “Wittgenstein’s Impact on Anglo-American Theology: Representative Models of

Response to Wittgenstein’s Later Writings”

 Every Square Inch: An Introduction to Cultural Engagement for Christians

(Lexham, 2015). (Also the Kuyper derived title of TGC Faith and Work project)

Publications (Articles and Chapters)

 “Pro-Life versus Pro-Birth,” in For God so Loved the World: A Blueprint for

Kingdom Diversity, eds. Dayton Hartman and Walter Strickland, III (Nashville:

Broadman & Holman, 2019). (Walter Strickland is the SEBTS professor who was recently exposed promoting Black Liberation Theology and James Cone)

“Just War,” in Christian Cultural Engagement, eds. Joshua D. Chatraw and Karen

Swallow Prior (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2018). (Karen Swallow Prior is the controversial ERLC Research Fellow who has openly endorsed Revoice from the 2018 launch and for whom Russell Moore denied any knowledge of Revoice to the SBC Dallas messengers when having been interviewed about Revoice the day before)

“Tayloring Christian Politics in Our Secular Age,” Themelios 42.3 (2017): 446-

51.

 “Politics and Public Life in a Secular Age,” in Collin Hansen, ed., Our Secular

Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor (Deerfield, IL: TGC,

2017), 87-98. (Ashford is participating in the progressive narrative of TGC/ ERLC politics with Collin Hansen and the “Never Trump / Never Again Trump – narrative)

 “Ludwig Wittgenstein,” in Zondervan Dictionary of Christianity and Science, eds.

Paul Copan, Tremper Longman, Chris Reese, and Mike Strauss (Grand Rapids:

Zondervan, 2017): 687-88. (Wittgenstein is a gay Atheist philosopher and the topic of numerous Ashford projects)

 “Creation Care Founded on the Biblical Narrative (Creation, Fall, Redemption,

Restoration),” in TheoEcology 1:1 (January 2012). (Creation Care is code for evangelical endorsement of the globalist hoax /Global Warming myth)

 “A SBC Vision for the Fulfillment of the Great Commission,” co-authored with

Danny Akin in Larry McDonald and Matt Queen, eds., A Passion for the Great

Commission: Essays in Honor of Alvin L. Reid, (Nashville: Towering Oaks

Books, 2014). (One of several projects with Danny Akin TGC leader and President of SEBTS)

 “Theologically-Driven Missiology,” in Chuck Lawless and Adam W. Greenway,

eds., The Great Commission Resurgence: Fulfilling God’s Mandate in Our Time

(Nashville: B&H, 2010). (Adam Greenway is now head of SWBTS)

 “Wittgenstein’s Theologians? A Survey of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Influence on

Theology.” The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 50, no.2 (June

2007) 357-75. (More work on the Gay Atheist Philosopher)

 “Worldview, Anthropology, and Gender: A Call to Broaden the Parameters of the

Discussion.” The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood XII, Issue 1

(Spring 2007) 7-9. (Perhaps a lead in and up to Revoice)

ASHFORD’S WORK WITH RECENT YEARS TGC POLITICAL NARRATIVES

Publications (Selected Essays)

 “The Intellectual in Canada Who Unmasked Political Idolatry in America,” The

Gospel Coalition (March 24, 2017).

 “Can a Faithful Evangelical Be a Political Nationalist?” (March 13, 2017).

 “How Can a Faithful Evangelical Be a Political Conservative?” (Feb 21, 2017).

 “Powerful Witness from a Position of Weakness,” The Gospel Coalition

(December 1, 2016).

 “The Jewish Intellectual Who Predicted America’s Social Collapse,” The Gospel

Coalition (April 25, 2016).

 “The (Religious” Problem with American Politics,” a 7-part blog series published

at Canon & Culture (January 2016).

 “How Richard John Neuhaus Changed the Way I Think,” Canon & Culture (Feb

16, 2015).

 “How a Man Named Lesslie Changed the Way I Think,” Canon & Culture (Feb

25, 2015).

 “Lessons from Father Abraham (Kuyper): Christianity, Politics, & the Public

Square,” Canon & Culture (March 6, 2015).

 “Augustine for the Americans: Lessons on Christianity & Public Life from a

Fifth-Century North African Theologian,” Canon & Culture (April 20, 2015).

ASHFORD’S WORK WITH FOX NEWS ON EVANGELICAL NEVER-TRUMPERS

MARCH 2016

“In an election cycle full of surprises, one of the most striking developments is the number of conservative evangelical Republicans who have stated that they will not vote for the current Republican front-runner: Donald Trump. These include religious figures such as Russell Moore, politicians such as Congressman Ben Sasse, and pundits such as Erick Erickson.”

BACK TO THE CV AND MORE WITTGENSTEIN

 “The Hands of Wittgenstein: George Lindbeck’s Appropriation of Ludwig

Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy”

ASHFORD IS PART OF SEBTS “FAITH AND WORK” INITIATIVE AND THE KERN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS FUNDING DRIVING SOCIAL JUSTICE ON TGC AFFILIATED CAMPUSES

Awards & Grants

 Co-recipient of a creative teaching grant from Yale Divinity School’s Center for

Faith and Culture (2004).

 Author of two grant requests approved by the Kern Family Foundation for

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (2014, 2015).

WITTGENSTEIN AND POSTMODERNISM IN THE COMPANY OF Kierkegaard, Marx and Nietzsche

“All propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing” Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ashford celebrates the influence of Wittgenstein’s later writings while clearly admitting to his lack of any clear theory being put forth.

”Philosophy. Wittgenstein is notorious for his unorthodox style of

writing, and for purposefully arranging his work in such a way that one

cannot discern any type of structured theory. One struggles to find any conclusions within his writings. Rather than drawing conclusions, he insinuates.

Why does he not employ clear premises and conclusions? The primary answer

is that his method of writing unlocks the purpose of his philosophy. He is rebelling against the traditional conception of “philosophy as the setting forth

of grand theories,” and throughout his later writings one can discern his

relentless attack on this type of philosophy. Wittgenstein writes: “We must

do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.”7

And again, “Philosophy simply puts everything before us, and neither explains

nor deduces anything.”8 Rather than viewing philosophy as metaphysical

explanation, or theory-building, Wittgenstein views it as description, and as

therapy for philosophical confusion”