A Lifetime in the Church and University (Thiselton)

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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.

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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.”

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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.
 
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