“We want to be careful that we don’t participate in an unseemly scramble for the big names to adorn our position, as though theology were a particular kind of shaving cream that needs a second baseman for the Yankees to endorse it” (Writers to Read, p. 66).
Have 'Em Delivered
Write to the Editor
Somehow this sounded familiar, and then I recalled having just read a similar, possibly the same, analogy in, “The Amazing Dr. Ransom’s…”
How unfortunate it is that famous people are so easily trusted without question their motives or the assumptions behinds their words.
Unsolicited edit:
“We want to be careful that we don’t participate in an unseemly scramble for the big names to adorn God’s Truth, as though our repeating of God’s Truth, were a particular kind of shaving cream that needs a second baseman for the Yankees to endorse it”
Truth is already “endorsed”, yea even revealed, by the Biggest Name, God.
That being said, a cloud of witnesses does come in handy sometimes.