{"id":799,"date":"2009-04-24T18:47:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T23:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/04\/24\/pastor-or-scholar\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T18:47:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T23:47:18","slug":"pastor-or-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/pastor-or-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"pastor OR scholar?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night John Piper spoke on “The Pastor as Scholar: A Personal Journey<\/a>.”  There are many things he said that resonate with me.  If you ‘re pursuing scholarship, you might put this on your “to read” list.  I ‘ll pick out one statement that I agree with and one that is not true for me.<\/p>\n

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This is one of the differences between me and many scholars that drove me out of the guild. I am regularly bursting to say something about the most precious things in the universe, and not in any disinterested, dispassionate, composed, detached, unemotional, so-called scholarly way, but rather with total interest, warm passion, (if necessary) discomposure, utter attachment, fullness of emotion, and, I hope always, truth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m not, and never will be, in the guild, so I can’t be driven out, but I do presently live in the scholarly world and this reality that Piper describes is an increasing source of pain to me.  Why is “evangelical scholarship” an oxymoron?  Who let the unbelievers take over our Bible?  Why do we so esteem them, bow down to them, and seek praise from them?<\/p>\n

The other:<\/p>\n

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I was teaching in college, not seminary, and so the trickledown effect of my teaching for the good of the church had farther to go than if I had been teaching seminary students. That was frustrating.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But seminary students won’t pick up and move to Africa when they graduate.<\/p>\n

You can read notes from D.A. Carson’s talk on the same subject are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night John Piper spoke on “The Pastor as Scholar: A Personal Journey.”  There are many things he said that resonate with me.  If you ‘re pursuing scholarship, you might put this on your “to read” list.  I ‘ll pick out one statement that I agree with and one that is not true for me.\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studies","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}