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Corley stepped down as president in
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Theological Institute had 300 students taking courses and an additional 300 students auditing courses. Bruce Corley was Carroll's first president; Gene Wilkes is Carroll's
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The institute's library received a donation of nearly 5,000 volumes from Eddie Belle
Newport, widow of John Newport, longtime academic vice president at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. An additional 500 volumes were donated by Lois Hendricks, widow of longtime theology professor William
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Christians. The institution offers classes in both conventional classroom settings and by innovative means. It trains students in "“teaching churches” located in multiple Texas cities, as well as through interactive lessons taught over the
Internet", with 20 such "teaching churches" in operation
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Dilday wrote of a 'lively renaissance of
Baptist theological education at the edge of a new millennium' prior to the launch of the institute. At the 2006 installation of the institute's president and first administrators, Dilday indicated that 'the time is right for such a school as the Carroll
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Carroll all formerly taught at Southwestern. including Corley, who was a professor of New Testament and Greek and the Dean of the School of Theology there. Corley was awarded both a
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Carroll was the founding president of Southwestern Seminary. Writing long before the controversy, Leon McBeth testifies to the importance of
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