Comments on: There and back again: rewriting written oral traditions http://heissufficient.com/2007/10/17/there-and-back-again-rewriting-written-oral-traditions/ Searching for wit and wisdom in a wilderness of words... Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:51:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: ElShaddai Edwards http://heissufficient.com/2007/10/17/there-and-back-again-rewriting-written-oral-traditions/comment-page-1/#comment-316 ElShaddai Edwards Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:54:04 +0000 http://heissufficient.net/2007/10/17/there-and-back-again-rewriting-written-oral-traditions/#comment-316 See <a href="http://heissufficient.net/2007/10/01/an-update-gone-squirting-awry/" rel="nofollow">this post</a> for an amusing oops by Reimann... thank you also for the background on Ms. Hobbs. See this post for an amusing oops by Reimann… thank you also for the background on Ms. Hobbs.

]]> By: J. K. Gayle http://heissufficient.com/2007/10/17/there-and-back-again-rewriting-written-oral-traditions/comment-page-1/#comment-317 J. K. Gayle Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:32:27 +0000 http://heissufficient.net/2007/10/17/there-and-back-again-rewriting-written-oral-traditions/#comment-317 <i>And why so many of our most treasured devotionals (e.g. Oswald Chambers) and writings (e.g. C.S. Lewis) had their origins in public lectures or radio broadcasts.</i> On Oswald Chambers, it's interesting that his public lectures come to us in a written devotional book; and that we get that through the largely unacknowledged efforts of Gertrude Hobbs (aka Biddy Chambers), his widow. She was a stenographer, who wrote down much of what he preached, compiled it into My Utmost for His Highest in 1935, and writes its forward only signing her name as B. C. but never writing about what she'd done. The most recent versioning of O. C.'s sermons and B. C.'s book is My Utmost for His Highest: An Updated Edition in Today's Language edited some years ago (1992?) by James Reimann. There's also an Audio version out this year on CD. It's not the Scottish Preacher O. C. speaking from and around the KJV but it's Tennesse American "Contemporary Christian" singer Michael Card reading or "narrating" O. C.'s words with NKJV text from time to time. That's quite a circle around to the Oral Tradition you're writing about. And why so many of our most treasured devotionals (e.g. Oswald Chambers) and writings (e.g. C.S. Lewis) had their origins in public lectures or radio broadcasts.

On Oswald Chambers, it’s interesting that his public lectures come to us in a written devotional book; and that we get that through the largely unacknowledged efforts of Gertrude Hobbs (aka Biddy Chambers), his widow. She was a stenographer, who wrote down much of what he preached, compiled it into My Utmost for His Highest in 1935, and writes its forward only signing her name as B. C. but never writing about what she’d done.

The most recent versioning of O. C.’s sermons and B. C.’s book is My Utmost for His Highest: An Updated Edition in Today’s Language edited some years ago (1992?) by James Reimann. There’s also an Audio version out this year on CD. It’s not the Scottish Preacher O. C. speaking from and around the KJV but it’s Tennesse American “Contemporary Christian” singer Michael Card reading or “narrating” O. C.’s words with NKJV text from time to time.

That’s quite a circle around to the Oral Tradition you’re writing about.

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