I just read most of Piper's (rather long) talk, The Pastor as Scholar: a Personal Journey, which is worth wrestling with. Here is one extract, concerning his time as a student at Fuller seminary:
- Nobody pierced to the essence of true scholarship the way Dan Fuller did. In partnership with Mortimer Adler’s How To Read a Book, he taught me that true scholarship, whatever our vocation, was:
- to observe the subject matter accurately and thoroughly,
- to understand clearly what was observed,
- to evaluate fairly what was understood by deciding what is true and valuable,
- to feel intensely according to the value of what was evaluated,
- to apply wisely and helpfully in life what is understood and felt, and
- to express in speech and writing and deeds what was seen, understood, felt, and applied in such a way that its accuracy, clarity, truth, value, and helpfulness can be known and enjoyed by others.
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