The Dead Teachers

I sometimes wonder if my time might be better spent reading more about current issues and less about long-dead theologians. Martin Luther. John Owen. Jonathan Edwards. D. M. Lloyd-Jones. C. S. Lewis. A. W. Pink.

But then I read this from another dead writer:


Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. - G. K. Chesterton

I'll give my vote to the dead guys.