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I would like to see more emphasis placed on the theological encyclopaedia myself. It seems to me that you could never work through Hebrew 7 properly without being confronted with a need for every aspect of it. And that highlights the impracticality of undue specialization: a pastor must often be competent in multiple theological disciplines.
I think it might also be questioned if the specialization necessitated by "keeping up with your field" doesn't involve sacrificing some measure of real learning in order to keep in the current of contemporary contributions; but that seems like a bondage to the now singularly inappropriate in those who are pointing us to eternity.
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