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Re: Wenham (less, rather than more)

At 1:04 AM -0400 6/3/97, Carlton Winbery wrote:

>One of the real pleasures of my year in Oxford (83-84) was "eating"
tea

>with John Wenham on Sunday afternoon fortnightly.  I also "ate" tea
with

>G.D. Kilpatrick on Thursday afternoons.  These two gentlemen often
walked

>together for exercise, as they both lived in the same neighborhood
between

>Banberry Rd & Woodstock Rd.  I also often attended the programs at
Latimer

>House where Wenham was Warden.  They had such people as Donald Guthrie
and

>Maurice Wilds (certainly two opposites in theology) at Latimer House
for

>these debates.


I just hafta put in my "voice" question here: what voice does one use
to "eat" tea. Somehow I always had the notion that one "takes" tea, but
I've wondered whether this was LAMBANETAI or DECETAI or perhaps
METECETAI--and of course a partitive object would be <italic>de
rigueur. 


</italic>I do regret that I've learned Banbury and Woodstock only
vicariously through the pages of Colin Dexter, whose splendid mysteries
are all set in Oxford, and I recommend them to any mystery lover who
has time for mysteries (now that sumer is icumen in). Another marvelous
evocation of Oxford is that of Dorothy L Sayers' <italic>Gaudy
Night</italic>, where Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane finally plight
their troth, inspired by a performance of Bach's Double Concerto, even
as they join hands in solving the current murder.


>I say all this to say that John Wenham was a great evangelical who did
not

>suffer the fear that seems to grip some American evangelicals of
allowing

>an audience to those "liberals" from whom you might learn something.


Aye, and from whom those liberals might also learn something. Wenham's
book on synoptic criticism is very nicely reasoned, whether or not one
agrees with it, and it is free from that strident tone that marks much
of what Linnemann and Farmer have written.


Carl W. Conrad

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