Archive for July, 2007
Reboot the blog
Thursday, July 5th, 2007I 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 [...]
New academic project: new volumes of the English edition of Luther’s Works
Thursday, July 5th, 2007The definitive edition of the written work of Martin Luther is the Weimar Edition. This edition of Luther’s work contains the surviving German and Latin original versions of Luther’s 16th century labor. Sitting on the bookshelf it consists of well over 100 volumes, which on average are large books of many hundreds of pages. If [...]
Psalm 82, Christian Deification, Jewish antecedents, and Carl Mosser’s disapproval
Thursday, July 5th, 2007I ran across an article this past week that deals very much with the same topic as my Masters Thesis. It is titled: “The Earliest Patristic Interpretations of Psalm 82, Jewish Antecedents, and the Origin of Christian Deification” and is found in the Journal of Theological Studies 56 (2005), 1: 30 - 74. This article [...]
Scripture, Early Christianity, and Sasse
Thursday, July 5th, 2007One 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, 2007Observation:
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 [...]
