“One outstanding difficulty in theological education today is that the
students persist in regarding themselves not as specialists, but as
laymen. Critical questions about the Bible they regard as property of
men who are training themselves for theological professorships or the
like, while the ordinary minister, in their judgment, may content
himself with the most superficial layman’s acquaintance with the
problems involved. The minister is thus no longer a specialist in the
Bible, but has become merely a sort of general manager of the affairs of
a congregation. … If on the other hand, the minister is a specialist –
if the one thing that he owes his congregation above all others is a
thorough acquaintance, scientific as well as experimental, with the
Bible – then the importance of Greek requires no elaborate argument.”
- Machen
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