Rocky Mountain Voice

By Michael A. Hancock | Commentary, Substack How Seminaries Lost Their Mission There was a time when seminaries existed to train ministers of the gospel — men and women who would handle the Scriptures carefully, shepherd congregations faithfully, and proclaim salvation through Christ alone. But over the past century, many of America’s most prominent seminaries have undergone a quiet yet radical transformation. They are no longer guardians of biblical truth; they are laboratories for ideology. The shift began innocently enough. In the early 1900s, American scholars trained in German universities imported “higher criticism,” a method that treated the Bible not as inspired revelation but as a patchwork of human myths and cultural stories. Miracles were dismissed as superstition, ...