SEWANEE: "This Seminary has a reputation for killing its Deans"
SEWANEE: "This Seminary has a reputation for killing its Deans"
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
July 26, 2011
The unexpected, tragic death recently of Dr. Guy Lytle, 66, former Dean and Professor of Theology at Sewanee, University of the South, highlights more than two decades of conflict at the Episcopal Church's only university, which has seen the steady overthrow of orthodoxy and the entrenchment of liberal and progressive dogma and ideas.
Sewanee Seminary is an example of a place that has seen enough conspiracy, backbiting, sniping, bad theology and administrational dysfunction to last anyone's lifetime - and in one case, it cost a dean his life, according to another dean. That dean died of a stress-related aneurysm at the age of 50. Still the seminary carried on getting yet another dean - the sixth in 18 years. Dean Guy Lytel III- who lasted 11 years - the longest ever to hold the job, was forced to step down over phony complaints of sexual harassment and more. Now, he, too, is dead.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
July 26, 2011
The unexpected, tragic death recently of Dr. Guy Lytle, 66, former Dean and Professor of Theology at Sewanee, University of the South, highlights more than two decades of conflict at the Episcopal Church's only university, which has seen the steady overthrow of orthodoxy and the entrenchment of liberal and progressive dogma and ideas.Sewanee Seminary is an example of a place that has seen enough conspiracy, backbiting, sniping, bad theology and administrational dysfunction to last anyone's lifetime - and in one case, it cost a dean his life, according to another dean. That dean died of a stress-related aneurysm at the age of 50. Still the seminary carried on getting yet another dean - the sixth in 18 years. Dean Guy Lytel III- who lasted 11 years - the longest ever to hold the job, was forced to step down over phony complaints of sexual harassment and more. Now, he, too, is dead.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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