Excerpt from The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 2006, Vol. 27Acknowledging this might lead us to switch our attention from the past to present and then to the future. Perhaps we will discover the rationale of the seminary if we ask what functions we need seminaries to perform now and how we are to anticipate their role in years to come. But once again, this is not a very promising approach. Placing too much emphasis on contemporary relevance runs the risk of falling victim to passing fashion and thus being without any abiding purpose. Focusing too much on anticipated need ignores the fact that human beings are strikingly poor predictors of the future despite a seemingly irresistible inclination to try to do so.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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