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...always trying to define the "aims" of education. But to a swelling chorus of critics, the definitions have a hollow sound. Last week, in an eloquent little book called Faith and Education (Abingdon-Cokesbury, $2), one of Manhattan's leading Protestant clergymen told why. The Rev. George A. Buttrick. longtime (25 years) pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, believes that modern education is nothing more than one gigantic evasion...
Exegesis & Exposition. The sheer statistics of the job are staggering. Buttrick and his collaborators have already spent seven years on it, and the twelfth and last volume will not be ready for six years more. The completed job will represent the work of 146 Protestant scholars (of more than 25 denominations), will consist of some 10,000 pages, and will cost more than $1,000,000. The publishers, the Abingdon-Cokesbury Press (Methodist), expect to sell individual volumes for $8 to $9 a copy. Price of the present volume (number seven in the eventual series...
...more impressive than any statistics. Each page is divided horizontally into three parts. At the top, in parallel columns, run two translations of the Bible's text-the 17th Century King James version and the Revised Standard version. Below the text is a band of exegesis. Writes Dr. Buttrick of this part of the work...
Living History. The volume published last week contains the first two Gospels (Matthew and Mark). The exegesis of Matthew is by Episcopal Dean Sherman E. Johnson of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, the exposition by Dr. Buttrick. The exegesis of Mark is by Episcopal Professor Frederick C. Grant of Union Theological Seminary, and the exposition by Methodist Professor Halford E. Luccock of Yale Divinity School. The other scholars are of similar high standing...
...Turning. It is in this new, committed kind of scholarship that The Interpreter's Bible has been written. As Dr. Buttrick sums it up: "There is only one Book. That Book is the noun; other books are but poor adjectives...