From your second link: "Everything from preaching to media technology, from helping with funerals to discipling [sic] unbelievers." This is one of those very

From your second link: "Everything from preaching to media technology, from helping with funerals to discipling [sic] unbelievers." This is one of those very frustrating conversations to have online, not that different from people saying "but it's the People's Democratic Republic of whatever." The Baptist thing called "applied theology" is a part of the Dominionist movement. Fundamentally it's a theocratic endeavor. I agree that theology has been used in a thousand ways across two thousand years and I'm sad that if you have a degree in "Applied Theology" from a small religious college in the Midwest it's definitely not just "I was thinking of becoming a minister." But dominionism is a real thing. People major in it, they drop out, they get other jobs, and then you have this record of their beliefs right there on their resumes. It'd be easier if they had no degree at all.