One of those thoughts that happened to float around in my head this morning:
What if Gunkel, Deissmann and co had suffered from a bad stutter as they spoke?
"D-D-Die Re-re-religionsge-ge-ge-geschichtliche Schschchchchch-ule"
You could hardly finish a word, in German, never mind a sentence. NT scholarship would have taken a different route!
Christ Sein, Küng
Existiert Gott?, Küng
Der Anfang aller Dinge, Küng
Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire, Brian J. Walsh and Sylvia C. Keesmaat
The Character of Theology: An Introduction to Its Nature, Task, and Purpose, John R. Franke
Shadow Sides. God in the Old Testament, Eric Peels
The Jesus Creed, Scot McKnight
Gebete des Lebens, Karl Rahner
Jesus and the Victory of God, N.T. Wright
Universal Salvation? The Current Debite, ed. by Robin Parry and C. H. Partridge
3 comments:
One type of therapy I read about which has had success in overcoming a stammer, is to learn to focus on speaking very slowly and carefully, pronouncing every syllable .... academic German recited by a reformed stammerer might kill the audience.
... by boring it to death!
absolutely.
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