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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...

For all scholars are not Christian, but godless men invade the domain of Christian doctrine and presume to pass judgment on the oracles of God. But my plea is for a scholarship that helps men to preach. For after all, the great need of the world is the preaching of the gospel, not saying off a sermon, but preaching that stirs sinful hearts to repentance and godliness. Our complex civilization has made more difficult and more necessary the task of the preacher. For a highly refined culture that breeds
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