The Sermon on the Mount and University Reform (original) (raw)
Interchange 49 1991 pp. 23-24 Originally Published The Naked Wasp 12:5 1989 At the risk of being thought of as a kind of Chaplain in Herod's Palace, I would put the question: Can a reconsideration of Jesus' teaching give us any perspective on our current crisis in "higher learning"? Followers of Christ have always asserted that Jesus' words are not just vague generalizations. They are, if they are anything, decisive and provocative. The Gospel writers always drew Jesus' hearers as those who heard and were decisively changed -one way or the other. Beware of gurus who come along dressed up like any old sheep of the flock but in fact are famished dingoes! You'll be able to pick them out by their products. Can grapes be harvested from blackberry bushes or do figs come from acres of thistles? And so healthy trees give good produce, infested trees give rotten produce. A good tree cannot give rotten products any more than an infested tree can bear good product...
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