Should Pastors Get PhDs? – John Piper, a pastor with a PhD, says no. I agree. I added my own comment below.
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If future pastors should generally avoid PhD’s even from solid evangelical seminaries, there are bigger questions that need to be asked.
Gunner – there are various areas of interest to me in your comment. Briefly:
1. As far as my memory serves, I think that Piper was thinking in terms of the PhD education he received, which may differ greatly from that of a “solid evangelical seminary.”
2. As a matter of principle, I don’t think future pastors should get PhDs. They should get the tools they need in a master’s degree and use those to study the rest of their lives. But those who are going to teach them should be one step beyond them, thus the PhD. A pastor with a PhD is probably not a pastor (but an author, a speaker, a Sunday-morning “guest” preacher).