C S Lewis’ 1959 address on “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism,” where he defends the historicity of the New Testament accounts of Christ’s miracles, critiques the [M]an who has spent his youth and manhood in the minute study of NT texts and of other people’s studies of them, whose literary experiences of those texts lacks any standard of comparison such as can only grow from a wide and deep and genial experience of literature in general. [Such a man] is, I should think, very likely to miss the obvious things about them. If he tells me that something in a gospel is legend or romance, I want to know how many legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by the flavour; not how many years he has spent on that gospel.

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