In a Q&A for online chapel at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) the seminary president Daniel Akin appeared to embrace a radical postmodern hermeneutical approach to the Bible. In the Q&A session, Akin defended Resolution 9 (the SBC’s move to approve the use of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality) and one postmodern expert said it appeared Akin embraced postmodern standpoint epistemology.
James Lindsay, a secular scholar and famous exposer of the grievance study racket, said, “Came across this very Southern religious guy talking about biblical interpretation, and it’s probably one of the most confused things I’ve ever heard because he’s mashing together his own views of ‘innerancy’ with Wokeness and some common sense…
“He mixes the influences of what he has learned and read with who he is (standpoint epistemology), white male versus black lesbian, then kind of suggests his interpretation must be right because his understanding might turn the black lesbian’s upside-down (LOL that’s colonialism)… He falls into, or uses(?