Nijay Gupta has posted some introductory thoughts and a couple of interesting articles on the vexing subject of why Christian ministers should learn New Testament Greek. Since I consider this to be a most important matter, I thought it appropriate to temporarily resurrect the Saturday a’Machen in order to share with you all this little [...]
The Pope of Rome on the Bible
It is well known, my gentle snowflakes, that while I am no friend at all of Papism, I have enjoyed for many years the scholarly writing of the current Pope of Rome Dr Benedict XVI. I was therefore enormously pleased to learn of a lecture given by him a week ago at the Collège des [...]
"La Biblia de Nuestro Pueblo" Now Available in the US
The current issue of the bilingual Revista Maryknoll features an article announcing that Orbis Books has published La Biblia de Nuestro Pueblo for the US market. This enormously popular Bible, which sold 400,000 copies in but a year and a half, is the Latin American edition of La Biblia del Peregrino, a translation produced by [...]
BW3 and Spouse Co-Author an Historical Novel about Jim West
Mike Bird has the news:
The Lazarus Effect (with Ann Witherington).
Archaeologist [....] West makes the discovery of a lifetime in Jerusalem finding the tombstone of Lazarus, which indicates that Jesus raised him from the dead. But before he can make public his amazing discovery, the stone is stolen, sold to the British Library, and West is [...]
On the True Meaning of "Conciliarity"
Few words are bandied about so recklessly in the English-speaking Orthodox world as “conciliarity” [sobornost']. A great many opinions on its nature and practical implications are routinely advanced in support of various agendas, but I’m quite certain that few of those who pay lip service to “conciliarity” could stomach the elucidation of the concept found [...]
Happy New Year, Everyone!
On this day, September 1, we observe the Beginning of the Indiction, which is also the Ecclesiastical New Year. The icon of the feast, depicted below, shows Our Lord at the synagogue of Nazareth reading what the Prophet Isaiah had long before said about him, and announcing the “acceptable year of the Lord”—an event which, [...]
On Autocephaly, Historical Myth, and Orthodoxy in North America
On a few occasions I have had the chance to discuss here some of the more deluded vagaries of the militant Americanist “Orthodox” imagination: for instance, I have previously addressed such absurd notions as the oft-proposed exile of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to North America, and the peculiar idea that the conversion of Kievan Rus’ [...]
In Which I Make a Couple of Very Serious Announcements for the Edification of All
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I know well, my gentle snowflakes, that it was only a short while ago that I boldly declared Sister Macrina’s A Vow of Conversation to be the finest theological blog I have read, but it seems that this may have been too hasty a judgement. Yes, I have come across a new blog whose sublime [...]
Lexical Semantics, Exegetical Fallacies, and the OSB (Or, "Woe Is Me, I Don’t Have BibleWorks!")
Some years ago, a well-meaning Orthodox priest, evidently concerned that no English translation of the Church’s text of the New Testament is available for liturgical use, sent out a communication in which he asked all recipients to reply with suggested corrections and changes, textual and translational, to the New Testament of the King James Version. [...]
CTS Names New President
It has just come to my attention that biblical scholar Alice W. Hunt has been named as the 12th President of the Chicago Theological Seminary. She succeeds renown theologian Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, who after 10 years at the helm of that distinguished institution has decided to return to full-time teaching.
Dr Hunt has served as Associate [...]
