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All of Christian History in 6 Hours
This audio tour de force is strong meat for a mature Christian audience.
Chris Armstrong | posted 4/01/2004 12:00AM
Luke Timothy Johnson of Emory University has rendered a service to the church with his Teaching Company audio course: "Great World Religions: Christianity." But he has had to be "cruel to be kind."
A master translator
The truly great teachers anticipate the questions of their students. Then they answer them in a way that hits home. That is, they have the knack not only of drawing up answers from their well of specialist knowledge but working that wondrous translation from their guild's specialist language to a public language. And, even more important, not just any public language, but a language that their students understand—intellectually, intuitively, emotionally.
This feat of intellectual, cultural, human translation is sadly beyond many university professors—as any who have sat through certain courses will attest. Thus when we find a master teacher adept at this miraculous feat of translation, we should indeed, as the Teaching Company does, distribute the fruits of their labor widely ... To view this item, you must be a member of ChristianHistory.net.
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