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	<title>Comments on: Dilettantism, Jim? I blame the Reformers and revivalists</title>
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	<description>an everyday tale of stardust, spit and spirit</description>
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		<title>By: More on the cultural gap in reading Scripture (McGrath) &#171; Confluence &#38; Crosspollination: Ben Byerly&#39;s Muddy Mix</title>
		<link>http://clayboy.co.uk/2009/07/dilettantism-jim-i-blame-the-reformers-and-revivalists/comment-page-1/#comment-390</link>
		<dc:creator>More on the cultural gap in reading Scripture (McGrath) &#171; Confluence &#38; Crosspollination: Ben Byerly&#39;s Muddy Mix</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] vs. amateur biblical interpretation. In addition to the links he has, I&#8217;ll add this one by Doug Chaplin.) [The fact that early Christians were completely unlike us in terms of world view and cultural [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] vs. amateur biblical interpretation. In addition to the links he has, I&#8217;ll add this one by Doug Chaplin.) [The fact that early Christians were completely unlike us in terms of world view and cultural [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Some Clarifications (I Hope) on the Subject of Credentials: Part I &#171; confessions of a bible junkie</title>
		<link>http://clayboy.co.uk/2009/07/dilettantism-jim-i-blame-the-reformers-and-revivalists/comment-page-1/#comment-363</link>
		<dc:creator>Some Clarifications (I Hope) on the Subject of Credentials: Part I &#171; confessions of a bible junkie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] number of other bloggers, including Doug Chaplin, Peter Lopez, and Scott Bailey, have offered their thoughts regarding the ongoing discussion of the [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Are you really qualified to Interpret the Bible &#124; The Church of Jesus Christ</title>
		<link>http://clayboy.co.uk/2009/07/dilettantism-jim-i-blame-the-reformers-and-revivalists/comment-page-1/#comment-360</link>
		<dc:creator>Are you really qualified to Interpret the Bible &#124; The Church of Jesus Christ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Doug [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Some of the Posts I Missed Today &#124; The Church of Jesus Christ</title>
		<link>http://clayboy.co.uk/2009/07/dilettantism-jim-i-blame-the-reformers-and-revivalists/comment-page-1/#comment-348</link>
		<dc:creator>Some of the Posts I Missed Today &#124; The Church of Jesus Christ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Matthew Burgess and Jim West have continued the argument about amateurs professionals, and biblical exegesis. (And Doug gets involved a bit as well.) [...]</description>
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		<title>By: jim</title>
		<link>http://clayboy.co.uk/2009/07/dilettantism-jim-i-blame-the-reformers-and-revivalists/comment-page-1/#comment-347</link>
		<dc:creator>jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i wouldn&#039;t worry too much with john&#039;s recommendations...

;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i wouldn&#8217;t worry too much with john&#8217;s recommendations&#8230;</p>
<p> <img src='http://clayboy.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Mark Begemann</title>
		<link>http://clayboy.co.uk/2009/07/dilettantism-jim-i-blame-the-reformers-and-revivalists/comment-page-1/#comment-346</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark Begemann</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>but didn&#039;t a scholar just recently recommend Lewis... confusing!  ;)

from the Ancient Hebrew Poetry blog:
&quot;...C.S. Lewis’s Reflections on the Psalms remains an indispensable introduction to that corpus.&quot;
http://ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com/ancient_hebrew_poetry/2009/05/reading-the-psalms-with-c-s-lewis.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>but didn&#8217;t a scholar just recently recommend Lewis&#8230; confusing!  <img src='http://clayboy.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>from the Ancient Hebrew Poetry blog:<br />
&#8220;&#8230;C.S. Lewis’s Reflections on the Psalms remains an indispensable introduction to that corpus.&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com/ancient_hebrew_poetry/2009/05/reading-the-psalms-with-c-s-lewis.html" rel="nofollow">http://ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com/ancient_hebrew_poetry/2009/05/reading-the-psalms-with-c-s-lewis.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: jim</title>
		<link>http://clayboy.co.uk/2009/07/dilettantism-jim-i-blame-the-reformers-and-revivalists/comment-page-1/#comment-345</link>
		<dc:creator>jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>at least lewis had the good sense to realize who he was.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>at least lewis had the good sense to realize who he was.</p>
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		<title>By: J. K. Gayle</title>
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		<dc:creator>J. K. Gayle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Seems that Mr. C.S. Lewis dressed up as Ms. Dilly Tantty from time to time.  For example, here&#039;s the way he presumes to start his Christian &lt;i&gt;Reflections on the Psalms&lt;/i&gt;, which he dares as a mere novice to say are Jewish:

&lt;i&gt;This is not a work of scholarship. I am no Hebraist, no higher critic, no ancient historian, no archaeologist. I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself. If an excuse is needed (and perhaps it is) for writing such a book, my excuse would be something like this. It often happens that two schoolboys can solve difficulties in their work for one another better than the master can. When you took the problem to a master, as we all remember, he was very likely to explain what you understood already, to add a great deal of information which you didn’t want, and say nothing at all about the thing that was puzzling you. I have watched this from both sides of the net; for when, as a teacher myself, I have tried to answer questions brought me by pupils, I have sometimes, after a minute, seen that expression settle down on their faces which assured me that they were suffering exactly the same frustration which I had suffered from my own teachers. The fellow-pupil can help more than the master because he knows less. The difficulty we want him to explain is one he has recently met. The expert met it so long ago that he has forgotten. He sees the whole subject, by now, in such a different light that he cannot conceive what is really troubling the pupil; he sees a dozen other difficulties which ought to be troubling him but aren’t.

In this book, then, I write as one amateur to another, talking about difficulties I have met, or lights I have gained, when reading the Psalms, with the hope that this might at any rate interest, and sometimes even help, other inexpert readers. I am ‘comparing notes’, not presuming to instruct. . . .&lt;/i&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seems that Mr. C.S. Lewis dressed up as Ms. Dilly Tantty from time to time.  For example, here&#8217;s the way he presumes to start his Christian <i>Reflections on the Psalms</i>, which he dares as a mere novice to say are Jewish:</p>
<p><i>This is not a work of scholarship. I am no Hebraist, no higher critic, no ancient historian, no archaeologist. I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself. If an excuse is needed (and perhaps it is) for writing such a book, my excuse would be something like this. It often happens that two schoolboys can solve difficulties in their work for one another better than the master can. When you took the problem to a master, as we all remember, he was very likely to explain what you understood already, to add a great deal of information which you didn’t want, and say nothing at all about the thing that was puzzling you. I have watched this from both sides of the net; for when, as a teacher myself, I have tried to answer questions brought me by pupils, I have sometimes, after a minute, seen that expression settle down on their faces which assured me that they were suffering exactly the same frustration which I had suffered from my own teachers. The fellow-pupil can help more than the master because he knows less. The difficulty we want him to explain is one he has recently met. The expert met it so long ago that he has forgotten. He sees the whole subject, by now, in such a different light that he cannot conceive what is really troubling the pupil; he sees a dozen other difficulties which ought to be troubling him but aren’t.</p>
<p>In this book, then, I write as one amateur to another, talking about difficulties I have met, or lights I have gained, when reading the Psalms, with the hope that this might at any rate interest, and sometimes even help, other inexpert readers. I am ‘comparing notes’, not presuming to instruct. . . .</i></p>
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		<title>By: clayboy</title>
		<link>http://clayboy.co.uk/2009/07/dilettantism-jim-i-blame-the-reformers-and-revivalists/comment-page-1/#comment-340</link>
		<dc:creator>clayboy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Ben apophatics &#039;r&#039; us on this blog.

@Scott stop going to Sunday school classes. They&#039;re clearly bad for you. :evil:</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Ben apophatics &#8216;r&#8217; us on this blog.</p>
<p>@Scott stop going to Sunday school classes. They&#8217;re clearly bad for you. <img src='http://clayboy.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_evil.gif' alt=':evil:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: jim</title>
		<link>http://clayboy.co.uk/2009/07/dilettantism-jim-i-blame-the-reformers-and-revivalists/comment-page-1/#comment-339</link>
		<dc:creator>jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the masses dont give a flip.  which is why we must.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the masses dont give a flip.  which is why we must.</p>
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