{"id":4091,"date":"2007-12-15T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/what-s-up-with-huckabees-theol.html"},"modified":"2007-12-15T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T10:24:00","slug":"what-s-up-with-huckabees-theol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/what-s-up-with-huckabees-theol.html","title":{"rendered":"What &#8216;s up with Huckabee&#8217;s theology degree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, here it is. Huckabee completed one year of seminary according to <a href=\"http:\/\/campaignspot.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=NTdmMWE3MjhjZTgyM2RhYzFmMWRiMzY2MThjZTMxZWY=\">Joe Carter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Governor Huckabee doesn&#8217;t have a theology degree. He only spent a year in seminary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> And from <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2007\/12\/14\/518108.aspx\">Huckabee<\/a> himself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have a bachelor of arts in religion and a minor in communications in my undergraduate work. And then I have 46 hours on a master&#8217;s degree at Southwestern Theology Seminary. So, my degree as a theological degree is at the college level and then 46 hours toward a masters &#8212; three years of study of New Testament Greek, and then the rest of it, all in Seminary was theological studies, but my degree was actually in religion.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One thing is clear he doesn&#8217;t actually have a theology degree:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m as strong on terror as anybody. In fact I think I&#8217;m stronger than most people because I truly understand the nature of the war that we are in with Islamofascism. These are people that want to kill us. It&#8217;s a theocratic war. And I don&#8217;t know if anybody fully understands that. I&#8217;m the only guy on that stage with a theology degree. I think I understand it really well.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, the question is this since the seminary didn&#8217;t do much training in regards to Mormonism, do you think it trained the students in Islam. At Westminster the theology that we study is Christian theology, did he study Islamic theology?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, here it is. Huckabee completed one year of seminary according to Joe Carter: Governor Huckabee doesn&#8217;t have a theology degree. He only spent a year in seminary. And from Huckabee himself: &#8220;I have a bachelor of arts in religion and a minor in communications in my undergraduate work. And then I have 46 hours&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[419,182,200,13,14,11],"class_list":["post-4091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun","tag-christianity","tag-church-and-state","tag-huckabee","tag-politics","tag-presidential-election","tag-religion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What &#039;s up with Huckabee&#039;s theology degree? - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/what-s-up-with-huckabees-theol.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What &#039;s up with Huckabee&#039;s theology degree? - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"OK, here it is. 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