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  • Recommended Readings: May 9-15

    If you read one article this week, engage Do or Don’t Do: The Golden Rule and Its Negative by Kevin Bywater. If you have more reading time, check out the following suggestions from around the blogosphere. As always, if you think there is something else I should be reading, feel free to let me know…

  • The Historicity of ‘Luther’

    In Luther, the NFP Teleart and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans’ film starring Joseph Fiennes, the story of German monk Martin Luther’s journey to what is now referred to as the Protestant Reformation is told. The film begins with Luther’s entrance into the realm of late medieval Roman Catholic monasticism, moves to his struggle with faith,…

  • Ephrem’s Boundaries of Investigation: Scriptural and Natural

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining Ephrem the Syrian and early Syriac theology. Throughout his Hymns on Faith, Ephrem remains especially concerned with recasting the terms of the Arian-Orthodox debate concerning the relationship of the Son to the Father. Instead of simply affirming a Nicene, Homoean, or Subordinationist perspective, Ephrem focuses on…

  • Would Christ Have Come If Humanity Had Not Fallen?

    Or, On the Value of Speculative Theology A common criticism of medieval Christianity theology centers on the practice of speculative theology, the asking of seemingly obscure questions which have little bearing (or none at all) upon the vicissitudes of human life or Christian faith. Perhaps the most common example of this are stories about medieval…

  • The Marcion Question: Sources

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining Marcion of Sinope’s influence on the formation of the New Testament canon. When examining Marcion, one must be careful to note his long and varied history of interpretation. For centuries Marcion, his writings, and his followers were generally conceived of in terms of their theological content,…

  • Book Review: God’s Problem (Ehrman)

    In God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Questions—Why We Suffer (Harper One: New York, 2008), Bart D. Ehrman examines the various explanations for suffering presented in the text of the Christian Bible. Ehrman, a New Testament Textual Scholar and James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University…

  • Recommended Reading: May 2-8

    If you engage one article this week, look at The Truth of Myth by Bradley Birzer. For those of you with additional reading time during this busy Spring season, check out the following suggestions below. As always, feel free to point out anything I have missed in the comments section.

  • Blogging Will Return…

    With final papers wrapping up this coming Monday, we will return to our regularly scheduled blogging in the course of the coming week. Thanks for your patience during this “comps/finals hiatus”. JJP

  • Recommended Readings: April 25 – May 1

    If you read one article this week, engage Kevin Bywater’s series on Old Testament Law and New Testament Ethics (Part I) (Part II) (Part III) (Part IV). If you have more time to read this weekend, check out the following suggestions from around the blogging world. As always, if there is something else I should…

  • A Prayer for Comprehensive Exams

    A Prayer for Students by Thomas Aquinas Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and ignorance. Give me a…