At 1:04 AM -0400 6/3/97, Carlton Winbery wrote: >One of the real pleasures of my year in Oxford (83-84) was "eating" tea >with John Wenham on Sunday afternoon fortnightly. I also "ate" tea with >G.D. Kilpatrick on Thursday afternoons. These two gentlemen often walked >together for exercise, as they both lived in the same neighborhood between >Banberry Rd & Woodstock Rd. I also often attended the programs at Latimer >House where Wenham was Warden. They had such people as Donald Guthrie and >Maurice Wilds (certainly two opposites in theology) at Latimer House for >these debates. I just hafta put in my "voice" question here: what voice does one use to "eat" tea. Somehow I always had the notion that one "takes" tea, but I've wondered whether this was LAMBANETAI or DECETAI or perhaps METECETAI--and of course a partitive object would be de rigueur. I do regret that I've learned Banbury and Woodstock only vicariously through the pages of Colin Dexter, whose splendid mysteries are all set in Oxford, and I recommend them to any mystery lover who has time for mysteries (now that sumer is icumen in). Another marvelous evocation of Oxford is that of Dorothy L Sayers' Gaudy Night, where Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane finally plight their troth, inspired by a performance of Bach's Double Concerto, even as they join hands in solving the current murder. >I say all this to say that John Wenham was a great evangelical who did not >suffer the fear that seems to grip some American evangelicals of allowing >an audience to those "liberals" from whom you might learn something. Aye, and from whom those liberals might also learn something. Wenham's book on synoptic criticism is very nicely reasoned, whether or not one agrees with it, and it is free from that strident tone that marks much of what Linnemann and Farmer have written. Carl W. Conrad Department of Classics/Washington University One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018 Summer: 1647 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(704) 675-4243 cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/