Talk:Biola University
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The belief that "all those who receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and their Lord, and who confess Him as such before their fellow men, become children of God and receive eternal life ... [and] all those who persistently reject Jesus Christ in the present life shall be raised from the dead and throughout eternity exist in the state of conscious, unutterable, endless torment of anguish" is NOT particular to Biola.
This article is about Biola, and things that are PARTICULAR to Biola. In an article about a pine tree, there is no need to say, "As with other trees, pine trees have roots, a trunk, branches, and leaves." If you are talking about a tree, than anyone with any sense will know that trees have these things.
The article mentions that it is an evangelical Christian organization. That is sufficient.
- Not everyone reading Wikipedia knows the core tenets of evangelical faith. Are there any actual reasons that the article is improved by keeping this information from the reader? I would point out that the statement was in the original article several months ago, when the article was much smaller.
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- Please, stop being dishonest: no information is being kept from the reader. There is a prominent link to evangelicalism right there in the article. If you think that article is insufficient to your agenda, please do modify it. That way you can target all evangelical organizations in one fell swoop, saving yourself time and energy. 24.113.6.164 09:13, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] That's what links are for.
If people want to know the core tenents of Chiristianity, (BTW, this is not the belief of JUST evnagelicals- fundamentalists, conservative Catholics, Eastern Orthodox among others believe this as well.) They can click on the hyperlink within the article. The fact that it is in the older posts does not change the fact that it isn't particular to Biola, which is probably why this was removed (not by me.) That information is out of place.
- The text in question:
- As with other Evangelical Christian groups, it is the offical position of Biola University that "all those who receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and their Lord, and who confess Him as such before their fellow men, become children of God and receive eternal life ... [and] all those who persistently reject Jesus Christ in the present life shall be raised from the dead and throughout eternity exist in the state of conscious, unutterable, endless torment of anguish." [1]
- Looking over it, I'd say it is fairly standard and therefore non-notable. If the tenets included something odd then it would be different. -Willmcw 09:57, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Barry Corey
The article here says that Barry Corey is Biola's sixth president whereas the site clearly proclaims him as Biola's eighth... I know, I know, I can fix it myself... I just thought that we might want to figure out who the others are, too. haha. http://www.biola.edu/news/articles/070510_announcement.cfm
whoops! forgot to sign! Justi521 20:04, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] orthodoxy
"The majority of students and faculty identify as evangelical, but Biola students and faculty hold a myriad of perspectives within the overall schema of orthodoxy. Biola officially holds to the teaching of dispensational premillenialism although it is not necessary to hold to this eschatological view to attend the university."
This seems to be a little too POV (and perhaps copied off a flier for the institute) in using orthodoxy to mean correctness in the sense understood within the institute. For the general reader, orthodoxy is a word that would apply to catholicism, for example. I suggest a phrase like "overall conservative schema" or "overall bible-centric schema" or "overall fundamentalist schema" (I realize the last conveys the right sense to the outsider but is unnecessarily loaded). I'm not evangelical so it's not my place to decide on the wording here. - eeen 15 july 2007
- the point seems to be that there are faculty and students ranging from anglican, to eastern orthodox, to fundamentalist Djgranados —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 06:50, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] notable faculty
Cinema and Media Arts, the purpose is to list notable faculty, not listing everyone inside your department. We should be focusing on individuals who continue to work or recently worked on projects, that a significant amount of people through out the world would recognize. Formerly being the Vice President of one of Hollywood's premiere agencies, Shapiro-Lichtman is. Working in the entertainment industry for the past fifteen years as a production supervisor on film projects ranging in budget from 15 million to 150 million is. Working as the band manager for a successful and recognizable band like Thrice & Cold War Kids is. Being responsible for the visual effects for Jurrasic Park, Godzilla, Independance Day, etc. needs to be highlighted. Directing multi million dollar projects, Exorsism of Emily Rose, is.
If every university and school listed their entire faculty listed, the pages would be terribly long.
[edit] Notable Faculty as per Wikipedia: WikiProject Universities
The current Notable list is not acceptable according to WP:UNI. It really should be in paragraph form and scaled down a bit. Anyone have recommendations on how to clean it up? Anyone want to take on the task? Bmstephany (talk) 14:18, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
