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  • Recommended Readings: April 9-15

    If you read one article this weekend, check out Christianity is Nonsense by Chris Casberg. For those of you with additional reading time this weekend, check out the following suggestions, gathered from around the blogging world. See something I missed sharing? Let me know in the comments section below.

  • Women in the Apostolic Fathers: Introductions (Part II)

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining Women in the Apostolic Fathers. While many Apostolic Fathers remain shrouded by history, Ignatius of Antioch has long been viewed as a vibrant and important character of the early Church. Written on the road to his martyrdom in Rome, Ignatius’s seven authentic Epistles were written to…

  • Women in the Apostolic Fathers: Introductions (Part I)

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining Women in the Apostolic Fathers. Before engaging pericopes from the Apostolic Fathers regarding women, we first briefly introduce the writings from which this evidence comes. Given the length and scope of this paper, these introductions are necessarily brief (and insufficient for a comprehensive examination of the…

  • Recommended Reading: April 2-8

    If you read one article this week, look at Freedom and the Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz. If you have more reading time this Spring weekend, check out the selections below, gathered as always from around the internet. Think I missed sharing something good? Let me know in the comments section below.

  • Women in the Apostolic Fathers: Context

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining Women in the Apostolic Fathers. In order to properly understand conceptions of women in the Apostolic Fathers, one must consider not only the writings themselves but also the general context of the first and second centuries, including Greco-Roman and earlier Christian evidence.[1] Of course, this attempt…

  • Women in the Apostolic Fathers: Method

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining Women in the Apostolic Fathers. A number of methodological presuppositions stand behind this study. Perhaps most central are the framing concerns of engaging ancient sources within their specific socio-cultural contexts and historical discourses, letting each particular writing and writer speak for themselves whenever possible, and considering…

  • Women in the Apostolic Fathers: Introduction

    In the formative years between the time of the Apostles of Jesus and the Apologists of Christianity stand a number of texts which reflect the labor of early Church leaders as they attempted to outline acceptable ethics and what it meant to be the Christian Church. Long neglected, in recent decades scholars have turned to…

  • Recommended Readings: March 19-25

    If you read one article this Easter weekend, look at C.S. Lewis on Christianity as True Myth by Michael Ward. For those of you with additional reading time, check out the following selections, gathered from around the blogging world. Think I missed sharing a top-notch article? Let me know in the comments section below.

  • The Day That Jesus Died

    “When students are first introduced to the historical, as opposed to a devotional, study of the Bible, one of the first things they are forced to grapple with is that the biblical text, whether Old Testament or New Testament, is chock full of discrepancies, many of them irreconcilable…. In some cases seemingly trivial points of…

  • Book Review: The Pauline Effect (Strawbridge)

    While the influence of Pauline writings on early Christianity remains widely recognized, few studies investigate the particulars of Paul’s theological and exegetical influence on ante-Nicene Christianity. Beginning this immense task of studying the specific reception histories of Pauline pericopes is Jennifer Strawbridge’s The Pauline Effect, winner of the 2014 SBL-De Gruyter Prize for Biblical Studies…