A Weblog Dedicated to the Discussion of the Christian Faith and 21st Century Life
A Weblog Dedicated to the Discussion of the Christian Faith and 21st Century Life
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I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this also I believe, –that unless I believed, I should not understand.-- St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)
3 comments:
Yeah. It's okay for specialists in academia to have their own language. What gets me, though, is when they're unable to help those not in their discipline, to make heads or tails about what they're saying, or what they're about. I mean, when they're actually talking to such a group.
Few things I like more than some whiz who can bring it down to the people's level. Without losing the essence of what they are conveying or teaching.
Ted:
That's why I think persons like Tom Wright and Scot McKnight are so popular. They know how to communicate the substance of scholarship to the common folk.
Interestingly enough, C. S. Lewis wanted there to be a pre-ordination exam, where the student must take a passage from some book studied in class, and turn it into ordinary, everyday language. Failure on this exam would result in failure of ordination. After all, what good is all that larnin' if you can't find a way to express it and make it relevant to your flock?
See, among other places, "Before we can Communicate", in the Lewis collection "God in the Dock".
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