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Thiselton, Anthony. A Lifetime in the Church and University. Wipf & Stock.
I’ve read a few of Thiselton’s texts on hermeneutics. This book describes his seminary life and early challenges in ministry. It reads like a laugh-riot. Evidently, he knew every evangelical Anglican of importance in the last 50 years: John Stott, JI Packer, three archbishops of Canterbury, NT Wright, Carl Trueman, etc.
He had bad eyesight as a child.
The book can be read in one or two sittings. It is a warm Sabbath read. While most of us won’t have the experience of Wodehouse’s England, we can probably identify with Thiselton when he would go to a new church or college, expecting to have quality music in worship, only to be demanded to play “Shine, Jesus Shine.”
The book ends with his various committees on controversies in the Church of England regarding healing and women in the ministry. I do wish he would have said more on homosexuality. Then again, he might not have been on any of those study groups.
I’ve read a few of Thiselton’s texts on hermeneutics. This book describes his seminary life and early challenges in ministry. It reads like a laugh-riot. Evidently, he knew every evangelical Anglican of importance in the last 50 years: John Stott, JI Packer, three archbishops of Canterbury, NT Wright, Carl Trueman, etc.
He had bad eyesight as a child.
The book can be read in one or two sittings. It is a warm Sabbath read. While most of us won’t have the experience of Wodehouse’s England, we can probably identify with Thiselton when he would go to a new church or college, expecting to have quality music in worship, only to be demanded to play “Shine, Jesus Shine.”
The book ends with his various committees on controversies in the Church of England regarding healing and women in the ministry. I do wish he would have said more on homosexuality. Then again, he might not have been on any of those study groups.