“Will Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists want to study theology at a declining, liberal Mainline Protestant seminary? Claremont’s new interfaith approach seems to undermine the transcendent claims of all faiths, and treat religion as merely a prop for the secular culture’s enchantment with multiculturalism and diversity.“Thanks to the liberalism of seminaries like Claremont, United Methodism has lost half its membership on the West Coast. Why would other religions want to follow that example?”
That's Mark Tooley, President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, commenting on the news that the United Methodists' Claremont School of Tehology is planning to launch schools of ministry for non-Christians.
The institution is creating the Claremont University Project which will “rethink classical models of theological education in an effort to promote interreligious cooperation and ethical integrity in the training of religious leaders for a variety of religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others.”
