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Biola President Update: Dr. Barry Corey in Chapel

May 8th, 2007 | 3 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Yesterday and today, Dr. Barry Corey has been at Biola meeting with various constituents and speaking in various arenas. Dr. Corey is the final candidate for President. I have heard him speak twice now, and have been quite impressed by his enthusiasm, his candor and his vision.  His talk in chapel yesterday has been made available on Biola’s website, so you can be impressed too.
The major questions about Dr. Corey that I’ve read and heard (though they haven’t been very prominent at all!) are twofold: What did Dr. Corey mean in this interview with the Orlando Sentinel, in which Dr. Corey seems to blur the lines between evangelicals and all other Christians, and how can he be ordained by the Assemblies of God and still sign the Biola doctrinal statement (which explicitly contradicts the AG statement on the matter of the baptism of the Holy Spirit)?

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.