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Preaching and Scholarship: Inaugural Address of Archibald Thomas Robertson is unavailable, but you can change that!

Can scholars preach? Should scholars preach? What is the relationship between intellectual cultivation and thoughtful preaching? In his inaugural lecture at Southern Baptist Seminary in 1890, A.T. Robertson clarifies the relationship between scholarship and preaching. He contends that objections to theological education usually arise from ignorance about the real workings of seminaries. This...

I am persuaded, based on limited acquaintance with theological students. There is small ground for uneasiness here. Your much learning, my brother, has not made you mad, nor any one else. Such cases do occur where a man becomes top heavy with supposed knowledge, but they are very rare, and, is usually when one is not deep rooted in the faith or is lacking in spiritual power. True knowledge comes so hard that it will serve to keep you humble and all you can digest will not hurt you, provided, of course,
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