by Sandy » Tue May 28, 2019 8:45 am
I enrolled in Southwestern in the fall of 1987, during the presidency of Dr. Russell Dilday. Trying to make a comparison of how conservative an SBC seminary was in the decades prior to the conservative resurgence is going to be based on the opinions and conversations of those who attended them at the time. When I was in college in the late 70's, the professors in the Bible department where I went to school were pretty unanimous in their evaluation that Southwestern was the most conservative of the six. Of the four professors in the department, one had both masters and doctorate from Southwestern, and two of the others had a masters from Southern with a doctorate from Southwestern. The other one had degrees from Moody and from Regents Park College at Oxford. There was no encouragement from them for ministerial students to go to Southern, and while Golden Gate was the top choice for students at the college I attended, the profs promoted Southwestern as the more conservative of the two. New Orleans was never mentioned, as far as I can remember and I don't know anyone from college who went there.