Thread by @SovMichael

(1) This past March, @ConceptualJames commented on Danny Akin's propagating the radically subjective concept of standpoint epistemology. In short, standpoint theory posits that one’s social position relative to systemic power confers additional insight or access to knowledge(s)

https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1373739641317249033

(2) ) that allows the oppressed to understand both oppression and the society or systems it operates within better than the privileged are able to.

(3) In this new “kaleidoscopic” understanding, one can engage their positionality to identify which “truths” or “knowledges” they can access and be taken as an authority upon.

(4) Possessing a racially minoritized identity provides insight into black truths, Asian truths, or Latinx truths, for example, and other identities provide access to additional truths.

(5) Where one is privileged, the expectation is roughly that one is to “shut up and listen,” and where one is Theoretically oppressed, one’s views can be considered authoritative. As @DannyAkin has been using standpoint epistemology as his model approach

(6) towards Biblical interpretation, an entire generation of students at SEBTS have had their hermeneutic methodology influenced by this radically subjective approach by both @DannyAkin and his staff at @SEBTS .

(7) Furthermore, these are the kinds of corruptive issues that @albertmohler has allowed to persist and grow at @SEBTS and @SBTS without any intervention, and in fact, with his encouragement.

(8)Consequently,@dannyakin has adapted standpoint epistemology in a way more consistent with postmodern and intersectional thought, moving away from a “strong objectivity,”and towards “kaleidoscopic consciousness,” which offers multiple truths instead of an exegetical hermeneutic

(9) This renders the Seminary President's Statement that "“affirmation of Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality and any version of Critical Theory is incompatible with the Baptist Faith & Message” is an empty statement without repentance and recognition that

(10) the Seminary President's themselves have been the source and cause of the spread of CRT and intersectionality in the SBC.

(11) Of course, you will not hear this from @NeilShenvi , @RealPatSawyer , @da_horton or Michael Feinstein. Why? Because their role is to protect SBC seminaries while this ideological cancer (and the suggestion of a "third way") is spread throughout the SBC.

(12) If you are interested in learning more about standpoint epistemology, I would suggest listening to the second "Trojan Horse" discussion between @ConceptualJames , @peterboghossian and myself or by visiting our website, newdiscourses.com .