J. R. Daniel Kirk to leave Fuller seminary amid conflict
This academic year will be the last year J. R. Daniel Kirk is associate professor of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, in part as a result of disagreement over same-sex marriage and how the Gospels portray Christ.
Kirk wrote in an e-mail that he had received from the dean “a summary of two separate committee reports that each list these as two of three reasons why I was not brought before the faculty for a tenure vote.”
In his book Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? and in comments on campus, he has said that questions of sexuality in scripture are “more complicated than simply delineating what sexual practices are OK and which are not.” In his blog, Storied Theology, Kirk refers to his view that the synoptic Gospels show Jesus “as an idealized human figure.”
