Keep up the Good Work

Keep up the good work, gentlemen.

I realize this week's assignment could be a little intimidating. Let me give you an alternative. You also may agree with your author as he disagrees with someone else. If so, you could show how he points out that the other person is uninformed, underinformed, misinformed, or illogical in some way.

So, you may disagree with some statement that is made, or you may show how the author disagees with others, or you may agree with the author, but you might also see that he could possibly be open to criticism. Then you could say, "if someone wants to disagree with this author's statement, he will have to . . . ."

Roger's book has some interesting forwards or introductions to the various printings of the book. The professor who wrote the forwards challenged others to show where Bro. Shank's analysis was wrong. Then upon the third (or some later) printing, he said that no one had come forward refuting (from a reasonable basis) the arguments in the book, and that he suspected that no one would be able to do so. It was very interesting because I think the professor still may have disagreed with the idea that Bro. Shank was putting forth (maybe not--maybe he changed his postion because of the arguments in the book), but he looked at things objectively and indicated that Bro. Shank had dealt with the issue in a very scholarly and biblical way.