Over at First Thoughts, Collin Garbarino offers some very perceptive comments on the Driscoll plagiarism affair.
He makes the point that such activity receives a failing grade at his
university. I would only add that at Westminster it also involves
automatic suspension from the degree program followed by discussion with
the powers that be about whether Christian ministry is really an option
for the perpetrator.
One sentence in particular stands out: 'Ghostwriting is lying, and plagiarism is stealing, and there seems to be a lot of it going around.' No further comment is necessary, for that says it all.
For some time now I have been harping on and on about the corrupting effects of celebrity culture on conservative evangelicalism. I think I was wrong: we are not dealing these days with mere celebrities; the ethical transgressions we are witnessing would indicate that we are actually dealing with a form of evangelical Nietzscheanism whereby the leaders of the movement are, to borrow a phrase, beyond good and evil. This should have been clear when Driscoll embraced T D Jakes as a brother. Continue at Carl Trueman
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