Word: elliott
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William Y. Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, will open the Lowell House Forum on the South tonight with a talk on the "Fugitive Poets: 30 Years After," at 8:45 p.m. in the Senior Common Room. Elliott, himself a member of the group of Tennessee poets, will illustrate his remarks with recordings of Allan Tate, John Crowe Ransom, and others reading and discussing their work at a recent reunion of Vanderbuilt University. Among future speakers in the Forum series will be Robert Penn Warren and Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta Constitution...
Sense of Shame. The Baptist-owned Broadman Press had interpreted the conference's resolutions as an order not to publish a second edition of the book, and the immediate reason for dismissal was Elliott's refusal to promise that he would not seek another publisher. But the real disagreement was over the right of seminaries to question doctrine if serious scholarship makes it questionable. A Midwestern faculty member remarked: "There is a very low morale as a result of what has happened. I would call it a sense of shame. This kind of thing gives another professor nowhere...
Last week a hundred Midwestern students met in protest over the dismissal of their most respected professor. The faculty and students of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., said President Sydnor L. Stealey, were "deeply disturbed by the news and deeply sympathetic toward Dr. Elliott." A faculty member at Louisville's Southern Baptist Seminary reported the faculty "almost one hundred percent" in sympathy with Elliott's views...
Golden String. What worries many professors in Baptist seminaries is that they are as far from the conference's stated position on the Bible as Elliott is. Yet, says one seminarian, "officially we still believe the Bible was let down on a golden string." Like Elliott, they are disturbed that Baptists "say we're completely free, yet insist on conformity...
...book was the center of the problem, and simply wanted it withheld until everything died down." In the seminaries, everything is not likely to die down. "Many of our lay people and our students are hungering to grapple with some of the deeper issues of our existence," says Elliott. "We just can't deny the validity of the quest any longer...