“And it is a documented fact that schools that go soft on the biblical languages sooner or later go soft on orthodoxy. Part of the reason is that the professors can no longer be held in check. Students can’t call them on the carpet for their exegesis, since the students have never learned how to exegete (an activity that, technically speaking, can only be done in the original language of the document).”
Leaving an environment where any criticism or questioning was most often viewed as negative, I find this perspective very interesting. It is not only a student’s right, but a student’s duty to “call them on the carpet for their exegesis.”
I must wonder if that applies to chapel speakers as well?
Read the whole post here: Is the Bible That Big of a Mystery?
