Quotes About Scholarship

THIS BRINGS US NICELY to the third speaker in our sound system. Like the second one, this third one has often been turned up far too loud. This has meant both that the music it is quite properly trying to play has itself been distorted and that the music coming from the other speakers (apart from the equally distorted second one) has been overwhelmed. In much modern biblical scholarship, in fact, this one has often drowned out all the others.

The Christian religion, hand in hand with various philosophical outlooks, has motivated, sanctioned, and shaped large portions of the Western scientific heritage. Modern Christians ought to drink deeply at the well of historical precedent. If we do, we will never feel intimidated by positivists and others who deny that religion has any role in genuine scholarship. In the broad scope of history, that claim is itself a temporary aberration-a mere blip on the screen, already beginning to fade.

A Christian approach to any field needs to be both critical and constructive. We cannot simply borrow from the results of secular scholarship as though that were spiritually neutral territory discovered by people whose minds are completely open and objective- that is, *as though the fall had never happened*.

My son should often read and meditate on history; it is the only real philosophy

une science indigeste?

We, the women, who rule thatif you make a scholar out of your wife, you will need another wife to do the daily chores.

Our New Testament text of today is a reconstructed or restored text. It has been reconstructed by modern scholarship from three independent lines of witnesses: the manuscripts, the versions, and the writings of early Christians (Church Fathers). In

The anti-cultic attitude is rooted in the theology of Martin Luther. Protestant scholars have dominated modern biblical scholarship until recently. This is especially true for German scholarship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which is still influential today. Aversion to ritual dominates this scholarship.

The "ivory tower" has a bad reputation only among the inhabitants of intellectual hovels.

I have an education, I went to college, you know?

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

There is abundant scholarship which establishes that the delegitimation of homosexual desire and the production of the naturally heterosexual, properly bi-gendered (unambiguously male or female) population of citizens, with the women respectably desexualized, is a process that is central to nation formation all over the globe.

An educated mind is an educated and save person

The cruel social arbiters of Indian society were denying individual merit. In their eyes, Ambedkar was simply a Mahar, and they could not care less if his scholarship was as vast as the sky.

Poverty and scholarship have always gone hand in hand, it seems, and one can't help but wonder why that might be.

Poverty and scholarship, it would seem, have always gone hand in hand, and one can't help but wonder why that should be.

Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?

In college, books assigned for class were read as competitive sport - the more critically, the better.

Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.

I knew from my previous discussions with Ben that you needed money or brains to get into the University. The more of one you had, the less of the other you needed.

You needed money or brains to get into the university, the more of one you had, the less of the other you needed".

I hope… that we are making China more interesting and less exotic to our Europeanist colleagues. Soon it may no longer suffice for historians of Europe to make mere polite bows in the direction of China; they will have to become more familiar with Chinese history on a serious level in order to carry on their work in European history effectively.

The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".

I greatly appreciate the work of Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga. He has observed that many academicians have a disdain for the term popularizer. However, he urges Christian philosophers not to leave their work "buried away in professional journals" but to make it available to the broader Christian community. If they don't connect their work to the life of the church, then they "neglect a crucial and central part of their task as believing philosophers.