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Vocation #5: Vocation - law of love / Ten Commandments and then Family, Government, Ministry of the Word

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

In the previous post, I presented examples of several texts that Luther interpreted as having to do with “vocation”. These examples were:

Matt. 19:20 - Christ’s vocation or call to the young man to go and sell all of his possessions and follow Him
Gen. 22 - Abraham’s vocation or call to slay his son
Matt. 4:1-11 [...]

Three Luther documents completed

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

I finally finished the third Luther work assigned to me by CPH for translation. It has been submitted for editing.
This document came from 1537 and was an introduction by Luther to a work titled “A disputation regarding the monarchy of the pope.”
In this document Luther was quite severe in his judgement of the papacy [...]

Reboot the blog

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

I had a little technical difficulty with the blog and had to reboot.  I saved the previous posts but now they are all dated from today.
I also changed the install directory so I just broke all the links out there that were pointing to the Nebraska Latinist blog.  Sorry.  Perhaps there will be a bit [...]

Scripture, Early Christianity, and Sasse

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

One of the places to begin a formal theological discussion, and a good one, would be at the point of sources of authority. If we restrict ourselves to Christian theology, then one of the primary sources of authority upon which to base such a discussion, would, historically, be the scriptures recognized as authoritative by Christianity. [...]

Language, Thought, and Communication in the 21st Century

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Observation:
I continuously observe, and am regularly surprised, at how the use of language in our culture has declined in precision and artfulness.
Thesis:
I believe that this is tied to our own culture’s decrease in ability to communicate, understand, and respectfully disagree with one another without resorting to all sorts of primitive personal accusations, recriminations, and just [...]