Teaching has changed a bit. Both schools improved their software for classes. When I began online teaching, it was by email. I even kept the classes in my regular email area on the computer, so I could teach and converse with others. At first the schools discouraged graphics, but now they encourage the faculty to use video, even to grade with audio or video snippets.
I remember when online education was greeted with shock and dismay. What about cheating? Ted Kennedy was kicked out of Harvard, without having online. Harvard Law was dealing with its faculty members cheating not long ago - without online. When I was taking some journalism courses, I reminded the journalist teacher that his peers were caught making up stories. He was deep into denial.
Now I am restricting the teaching jobs I accept, which are scheduled only a month or two in advance. There is so much to do, and it is so enjoyable to produce materials and be encouraged by so many people. Lutheran higher education went on vacation about 100 years ago. We have been discussing that, as Alec Satin finds and publishes books.
- I wrote long ago that Lenski's weakness was in playing around with the Greek text, which happened at the time the Westcott Hort Greek New Testament was just being accepted. Two others of that era are considered conservative but were giddy about the Hort agenda.
- A. T. Robertson, the Greek grammarian was greatly admired by Lenski.
- The Calvinist Benjamin Warfield was delusional on the topic, but held up as conservative by his readers.
Westcott Hort did their dirty work 1870-1880, but were allied many years before that, honored as ordained ministers and scholars. They secretly produced their own Greek New Testament for "revising" the KJV, which was to be done in a very limited way, only in English. The result was an English and an American Bible that went against almost all the manuscript evidence - in favor of two (one of them from the Vatican) fraught with errors and omissions.
The Revision came out at exactly the same time as the covert Westcott Hort Greek New Testament. Some may notice that the secrecy and dishonesty of these two clergy roughly parallel the way WELS, LCMS, and the Little Sect on the Prairie have promoted Church Growth (denying it three times, nay 300 times) and Objective Justification (their only dogma). The ELS was born from OJ, but Missouri and WELS performed their about-face by deep-sixing their original materials and statements - not to mention the plain language of the Bible, which they swore to teach.
Think about this, readers. Those who stayed with the King James Version, in essence the Tyndale-Luther Bible, preserved a constant English standard in language and the best Greek New Testament - the Majority Text, aka the Received Text, often called the Byzantine version.
Everyone helps me figure out what has happened in theology and why. For example, Andrea's father and I just had some long conversations about our denominational histories. Alec Satin and I discuss frequently potential and recent books from his Spindletop-like publishing mission. The Bethany Scholars bring up topics to discuss and research.
I appreciate hearing from members and friends, too. Virginia Roberts decided to help with Luther's Sermons and has spotted typos ever since.
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