Sad news today is that CFD Moule has died aged 98. He was the best kind of biblical scholar, and thoroughly British.
For some reason on my bus ride home today I was thinking of whether I have been seriously influenced in my understanding of Christianity by any lifelong biblical scholars - like Moule. I'm sure other people think about more interesting stuff on their commute but I started making a list in my head of the most influential writers of my life so far. Here it is (in rough chronological order):
- John Calvin
- Don Carson
- John Piper
- Graeme Goldsworthy
- Mark Seifrid
- Lesslie Newbigin
- Tom Wright
- Tim Chester
- Peter Leithart [perhaps to early to say]
- Jim Jordan [perhaps to early to say]
All of them have taught at an institution at some point in their career, and all but one (Mark Seifrid) have had some kind of pastoral ministry as well. So as I was nearing home I tried to wonder why is it that I have been most influenced by these pastor-theologians (as they may be described in the broadest way). Here is my list of possible reasons:
- They are better at communicating to my level.
- Many of them have lots of mp3s on the internet and I listen to a lot of mp3s.
- Academics spend half their time 'interacting' with other academics and not enough time expounding the bible.
- ... Then it was my stop, and I have no more thoughts at the moment.
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
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