Quotes about Scholarship

As Thomas Hobbes said, "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

1. WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT AS A WHOLE?

The duty of the historian is not to make the facts, but to discover them, and then to construct his theory wide enough to give them all comfortable room.

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*.

This is not psychoanalysis. It is history.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the end of the first century at the latest--though most scholars would put most of them earlier than that.

One of the great gains of biblical scholarship this last generation, not least because of our new understanding of first-century Judaism, is our realization that the temple was central to the Jewish worldview.