If you read the Wheaton College statement of faith that you’ve linked to, you would see that the god that Wheaton College worships is the Trinity (they are very explicit in their Statement of Faith), a concept absent in Islam. I can see why a fundamentalist organization such as Wheaton would hold that Islam does not worship the same god as they do, and that by equating the god of Islam with the God of Wheaton, Dr. Hawkins was violating the terms of her contract.
On Dec 16, 2015, at 10:08 PM, Mike Palij <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:44:20 -0800, Paul Brandon wrote:> >> In this case, the college is religious; effectively a branch of a church, >> and the contract requires adherence to the church's religious principles. >> She signed her contract knowing this. > > I understand this but you're implying that the religious sect running > the college really doesn't believe that there is only one God in > the Abrahamic religious tradition. The "Statement of Faith" that > Wheaton uses does not explicitly state this -- see: > http://www.wheaton.edu/About-Wheaton/Statement-of-Faith-and-Educational-Purpose > > So, how does her comment violate this statement. Quoting from > the NY Time article, > > |"I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, > | like me, a Christian, are people of the book," she wrote, > |in part. "And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship > |the same God." > > Or was it her mention of Pope Francis that got her into trouble? > Are the folks running the college anti-papist? See the Wikipedia > entry > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anti-Papist&redirect=no > which will probably redirect to this entry: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anti-Catholicism&redirect=no > > -Mike Palij > New York University > [email protected] > > > > On Dec 16, 2015, at 3:04 PM, Mike Palij wrote: >> Can a tenured faculty member be fired for being a heretic? We'll >> see but for now see the following: >> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/us/wheaton-college-professor-larycia-hawkins-muslim-scarf.html?_r=0 >> >> No wonder Trump is so popular. >> >> Do evangelicals not consider Islam one of the Abrahamic religions? >> See: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=47627 or send a blank email to leave-47627-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
