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Ep #6: Dr. Scott B. Key

Ep #6: Dr. Scott B. Key

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 Dr. Key is the Vice President for Academic Initiatives at the C.S. Lewis Study Center in Northfield, MA. He is also my former Philosophy professor in college and my current great-uncle on my dad’s side. Listen to us talk about asking the right questions, the purpose of higher education, and how the C.S. Lewis Study Center came to be.For more info on what The C.S. Lewis Study Center does, please visit greenpasturesstudycenter.org. Episode Transcript(NOTE: Transcript is auto-generated. Errors may exist throughout.)Emily: Hello, I'm Emily Stewart and this is who I wanna be when I grow up. My guest today is Dr. Scott B. Key. Dr. Key is a retired professor of philosophy at California Baptist University and is now in the New England area as the Vice President for Academic Initiatives at the CS Lewis Study Center in Northfield, Massachusetts. I know Dr. Key by another name as my Uncle Scott, whom I was also privileged to take a majority of my classes from as a Philosophy student myself at Cal Baptist. I couldn't be more thrilled for him to be on the show, and I'm very excited for you to hear our conversation. Let's get into it. Dr. Key, welcome to the show.Uncle Scott: I'm glad to be here. Emily: So, a little context for everyone, I think I'll put this in the intro, but, um, I call you two things and two things only. You are either Dr. Key or you are my Uncle Scott. Um, but yeah, so this should be fun going back and forth between those two. But the first question I always like to ask people who come onto the show is, what did you wanna be when you grew up?Uncle Scott: Oh, that is a great question. And I, uh, wow. There was a time when I, I wanted to go into politics, uh, when I was a kid, cuz I was fascinated by the political process. I remember listening to the, um, Republican National Convention, or the Democratic National Convention, uh, broadcast on radio when Adelaide Stevenson was running against Eisenhower. Um, That would've been, uh, '50 to '50, '56 probably. Emily: Wow. Uncle Scott: Um, and I remember being fascinated by all of that hoopla. And, uh, so that was one of the things that popped in my mind really early in my life. Um, and so that, that led me to pursue political science. And then about halfway through that process as an undergraduate, I decided that's really not where I wanted to go. Uh, I was interested in law school, but I made a decision by my senior year to, um, pursue a theological and philosophical training at a seminary. Emily: Mm-hmm. Uncle Scott: So that was the shift that took place, uh, about my junior year in college. Emily: Yeah. What was the final sort of decisions that made you transition from law school into theology, philosophy?Uncle Scott: Um, I think, I think it had to do with, um, a sense of calling, uh, for sure that was part of it, and a sense that the theological philosophical questions were far more important than the political ones. Emily: Mm. Uncle Scott: Even though I was fascinated by the political ones, uh, I felt like the, the deeper questions, um, trying to figure out what, how faith, um, and how Christian thought was related to these political questions and to the culture as a whole was far more significant.And I, I didn't, when I was a junior or senior in college, I did not have a lot of sophistication in terms of articulating that, but that I think is at the heart of that sense that I needed to pursue this at a seminary set setting. Emily: Yeah. So what were the biggest, um, takeaways that you had cuz you went to seminary and then you ended up pursuing a doctorate. So what were the kind of things that fell into place at seminary that led you towards the doctoral route? Uncle Scott: Well, first of all, uh, when I got in, arrived at seminary, if, if you had tried to measure how much faith I had, uh, it would've been pretty slim because I had been reading, um, critical 20th Century New Testament criticism, and I was beginning to doubt everything about the validity of the, of the word of God and the, and, and the historicity of the New Testament. So the first thing that happened was that those elements got rebuilt in the first three or so years of my seminary experience. Emily: Mm-hmm. Uncle Scott: I became convinced by the fine faculty that, that I encountered who were deeply Christian and deeply intellectual. That, that, uh, reason and faith were not opposites, uh, that the New Testament had serious historical credibility. And that, uh, the issue was a matter of learning how to properly address the New Testament or, and allow the New Testament to address me rather than imposing, um, 19th and early 20th century critical methods on the New Testament. Emily: Mm-hmm. Uncle Scott: And these were people that knew those methods very, very well. Uh, this was not, um, this was not a faculty that was living in a cave somewhere, that this was a faculty that vitally involved in the discussion, and yet they were deeply committed Christ followers. So the first couple ...
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