Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
I am just after listening to the Doctor's inaugural lecture for the London Theological Seminary in 1977. While MLJ was very good upon insisting that natural gifts for public speaking and biblical qualifications for ministry be upheld, much of his vision of ministerial training struck me as radical to the point of being just plain bizarre.
On the issue of languages, I did see his point about only training men in Greek and Hebrew so that they could use their commentaries intelligently. The notion, which he refuted, that you cannot read the Bible unless you know Hebrew and Greek is deeply pernicious. Still, a case could be made that MLJ errs too much in the other direction.
I would be interested to hear what everyone else thinks of the lecture.
On the issue of languages, I did see his point about only training men in Greek and Hebrew so that they could use their commentaries intelligently. The notion, which he refuted, that you cannot read the Bible unless you know Hebrew and Greek is deeply pernicious. Still, a case could be made that MLJ errs too much in the other direction.
I would be interested to hear what everyone else thinks of the lecture.