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I guess my problem with that college is it's extreme dispensational views that trickled down into their students. These views distorted their real life perspectives.
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From the book- "It is true that Dan Lewis openly criticized dispensational pre-mellennialism in classrooms on the grounds that these were not official UPC doctrines, despite the fact that many considered them unassailably orthodox. Lewis made a significant transition in his own thinking on matters of eschatology while at Jackson. He arrived on the faculty in 1976 from Portland as a confirmed dispensationalist. However, by 1981 he had completely abandoned that hermeneutical position. He deliberately exposed students to a variety of eschatological option including but not limited to those advanced by many influential twentieth-century theologians such as Albert Schweitzer, Jurgen Moltmann, Rudolph Bultmann and C.H. Dodd. Lewis did not attempt to influence his students to adopt any particular point of view but he did intentionally not emphasize the dispensational model. This perspective was made explicit in the teaching materials which stated "no attenpt will be made to force students into acceptance of any particular mode of interpretation nor will there be any favoritism shown to 'pet' systems."
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