{"id":661,"date":"2006-07-18T04:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T04:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2006\/07\/bonny-st-andrews.html"},"modified":"2006-07-18T04:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T04:57:00","slug":"bonny-st-andrews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2006\/07\/bonny-st-andrews.html","title":{"rendered":"Bonny St. Andrews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third oldest university in the United Kingdom is St. Andrews University, with 5,000 undergrads today and numerous grad students.  The town itself is a little seaside village on the west coast of Scotland, and let me tell you&#8212; the water is very cold in the North Sea.  I went swimming yesterday and it was the hottest day on record in St. Andrews. It didn&#8217;t matter&#8212; the water was still about 50F max.  The town has a long religious history, with a ruined abbey and a castle keep where John Knox was imprisoned among its other intereting sites to visit.  Of course today it is most famous for its golf course, the Old Course, which has hosted many a British Open. I played it on Friday&#8211; 2 pars, one bird, and though the cost was very pricey (think hundreds of dollars) the experience was priceless. Hope to post some pictures when I get home, including one of me on the famous 18th hole bridge.  St. Andrews, without question, is one of the best places in the world to study theology with a world class faculty, to which has just been added Marcus Boeckmuhl from Cambridge. I have had a wonderful time with my old friends  Richard Bauckham (who is soon retiring) and Bruce Longenecker.  Now we are beginning an important conference on the book of Hebrews with papers by Richard Hays, Morna Hooker, Richard Bauckham, Craig Blomberg, yours truly and lots of others. It promises to be grand.  More anon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third oldest university in the United Kingdom is St. Andrews University, with 5,000 undergrads today and numerous grad students. The town itself is a little seaside village on the west coast of Scotland, and let me tell you&#8212; the water is very cold in the North Sea. 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