What follows is the fourth and final installment of my transcription of the full text of the “redemptive-historical” discourse delivered before St Vladimir, according to the Russian Primary Chronicle, by the Constantinopolitan scholar-envoy. For a discussion of the apologetic importance of this discourse, see my earlier post, The Conversion of St Vladimir and Orthodox Apologetics. [...]
BYU’s Middle Eastern Texts Initiative
So, when did Brigham Young University become a distinguished publisher of ancient and medieval Jewish, Christian and Islamic texts? Someone help me, because this obviously happened while I was looking away.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative (METI) at BYU has undertaken the preparation and publication of truly splendid bilingual [...]
Blog Day 2008
For reasons which I fail to comprehend, the Irreverend Mr Ker has tagged me to participate in Blog Day 2008, which as far as I can tell is nothing but a wicked ploy to inflict a meme on every single blogger on the planet. While it is clear that the intent behind this gimmick is [...]
A Song for My 30th Birthday
I feel a bit uneasy to break with what feels by now like a well-established tradition, but I have not chosen a song by the great Paul Simon as this year’s Song for My Birthday. Instead, I have chosen one of my all-time favorite songs, one that calls us to hold on to the people [...]
History, Theology, and Exegesis
Recent posts by Phil Snider, Phil Sumpter, and Nick Norelli raise a number of important questions on the issue of moving from historical(-critical) approaches to theological approaches in Biblical interpretation. Asking such questions is both useful and necessary, because as Christopher Seitz has rightly said, “the area calling out for greatest clarity, at least in [...]
Calvin, Exegesis, and Thelogy: A Silvanic Approach
According to Jim West, Stephen R. Holmes suggests in what appears to be a most interesting article that those wishing to find the center of Calvin’s thought would be well advised to look for it primarily in his commentaries rather than in the celebrated Institutes, often the only text to which people turn in that [...]
The History of Salvation in The Russian Primary Chronicle, Part 3
What follows is the third of four installments in which I will transcribe the full text of the “redemptive-historical” discourse delivered before St Vladimir, according to the Russian Primary Chronicle, by the Constantinopolitan scholar-envoy. For a discussion of the apologetic importance of this discourse, see my earlier post, The Conversion of St Vladimir and Orthodox [...]
The Horrible Weight of Time, and Its Cure (With Apologies to Baudelaire)
I wish to make it known that yesterday afternoon I received a package in the mail which effectively signals the beginning of the end.
And what was this package, you ask? Well, my gentle snowflakes, it was a kind gift from the Irreverend Mr Ker on the occasion of my upcoming 30th birthday. Since I am [...]
How Liturgy Reads the Bible: The Old Testament on the Transfiguration of Christ
On this day, August 6 (O. S.), the Church celebrates with great joy the bright Feast of the Transfiguration. (For a sublime exposition of the meaning of this Feast, see this sermon by St Gregory Palamas.) Great Feasts such as this always afford us a sterling opportunity to have a good look at the [...]
The Tao of Stefan (Or, How They Get Here)
I apologize, my gentle snowflakes, for the slow pace of posts during this unexpectedly hectic week. Today I have been enjoying a brief respite before the onset of the weekend, however, and it occurred to me that perhaps I should borrow a page from Nick Norelli’s playbook and address two of the questions that, according [...]
Слава тебје, Господи!
I have no words for the video below, but only tears—at first of sorrow, and then of joy. Truly, as we sing after hearing the Gospel of the Resurrection at Matins every Sunday, “through the Cross joy has come to the whole world”! The featured song is, once again, one of the Serbian duhovne pesme [...]
The History of Salvation in The Russian Primary Chronicle, Part 2
What follows is the second of four installments in which I will transcribe the full text of the “redemptive-historical” discourse delivered before St Vladimir, according to the Russian Primary Chronicle, by the Constantinopolitan scholar-envoy. For a discussion of the apologetic importance of this discourse, see my earlier post, The Conversion of St Vladimir and Orthodox [...]
Seven Recent Posts of Interest
Justin Taylor announces that Crossway has made available the full text and notes of the Book of Jonah from the forthcoming ESV Study Bible. He also reprints an interview with Mark Futato, who is responsible for the study notes on this book. Now all we need is someone with expertise in the Hebrew Bible to [...]
Bible Translation Matters
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The July 2008 issue of The Banner, the monthly denominational magazine of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, reports that the New Living Translation has been designated by Synod (the highest judicatory of a Reformed church) as one of the versions acceptable for use in the CRC, but with reservations:
The NLT was accepted “with [...]
The History of Salvation in The Russian Primary Chronicle, Part 1
What follows is the first of four installments in which I will transcribe the full text of the “redemptive-historical” discourse delivered before St Vladimir, according to the Russian Primary Chronicle, by the Constantinopolitan scholar-envoy. For a discussion of the apologetic importance of this discourse, see my earlier post, The Conversion of St Vladimir and Orthodox [...]
