Dean Burgon and KJVO

[Yeshua1]

Dr. Thomas Cassidy, an Admin. here until his death, was once a member of the Dean Burgon Society until he studied Burgon's life & works closely & saw the DBS had drifted more into a KJVO club than one promoting the study of The Dean's works & his actual ideas & ideals. Dr. Cassidy once told me by PM that he believed Burgon viewed the KJV as the best &nglish Bible translation at that time, but that he would've welcomed a new revision of the TR and a new English Bible translation made from a newly-revised TR. Dr. Cassidy added that he could only guess at what The Dean would've actually done.

But he re-iterated that the Society had gotten away from its purpose of the study of Burgon's life & works.

Wonder what the good Dr would have thought about the Nkjv then?

 

[Yeshua1]

I think the good Dean would be very perturbed by the quality of academic rigor of the KJVOs.

or lack of such!

 

[Squire Robertsson]

or lack of such!

That's my point. The man had far higher standards.

 

[Yeshua1]

That's my point. The man had far higher standards.

Think he would have approved of the Nkjv, and would have been part of trying to get out a MT based version!

 

[rlvaughn]

I think the good Dean would be very perturbed by the quality of academic rigor of the KJVOs.

I don't doubt your point about Dean J. W. Burgon.

On the other hand, I am not sure that problem is confined to the KJVOs. In my interaction with Baptists who are Fundamentalists I have run across many who love to have the title but do not want to do the work (whether KJV-pro or KJV-no; of course, it is the "O's" who are more likely to cite Burgon). I might further explain that I am giving this from a perspective of one who believes we should prefer the local church as the educational institution ordained by our Lord, and one who also thinks preachers should not throw around ttitles to impress people. We can usually tell whether or not one knows what he or she is talking about. However, it is especially exasperating when "Doctors" appear to be "Dunces."