Daily Archives: February 17, 2006

Read This

This was written as (essentially) an anonymous rant in a England-wide clergy directory. The author was a disaffected Anglo-Catholic who committed suicide when his authorship of the piece was discovered. I need to study it more but it is very thought-provoking; its statements in the first part on English patristic and biblical studies are absolutely true. There is an “English” way of doing biblical studies which is quite different from the German and subsequent American schools of wissenschaft divorced from the concerns of the churches. So–read it. Parts are a rant, especially against WO, but I think it’s worth knowing and engaging meaningfully.