The issues at Bethlehem College and Seminary & Bethlehem Baptist Church are actually about (1) the limits of their local church ecclesiology & (2) that their version of Calvinism (as truncated) misses key elements of Reformed Theology, like natural law. christianitytoday.com/ct/2021/august…
When your Reformed theology is not first predicated on the doctrine of creation, it’s hard to discuss social issues. Cosmology is the pre-text not God’s sovereignty. Evangelicals reject cosmology as central & so they can’t figure out CRT, empathy, etc. amazon.com/Rediscovering-…
Cosmology is where the Reformed tradition reflected on social and cultural issues until the evangelicals removed that historic method by putting soteriology at the center saying the gospel is the start & the center. It’s not. For social issues, it’s creation. Read Van Groningen.
Also, with a non-connectional ecclesiology there’s no formal place/process to do theology in community to sort out these issues in a way that binds solidarity amongst leaders for the sake of the community. Sad to see this implosion.
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