Sitemeter has once again rescued an important question submitted to Google that lead an unsuspecting soul to The Voice of Stefan, and as before, I feel that it is my bounden duty to attempt to provide some answer to their inquiry. Thoughtful in Tracy (CA, USA) asks:
who created stefan and valdimir [sic]?
Needless to say, I [...]
Controversy has recently arisen in theoblogging circles regarding Scot McKnight’s blurb for N. T. Wright’s forthcoming book, Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision (Downers Grove: IVP, 2009), in which the Bishop of Durham undertakes a response to critics of his approach to Pauline studies (notably John Piper). Justin Taylor of Between Two Worlds suggests that [...]
I am my teacher’s disciple, and therefore it is hardly surprising that I am an admirer of biblical scholar and author extraordinaire D. A. Carson. I have spent the past few days reviewing several of his works in my bookshelves, most of which were regrettably unavailable to me for many years on account of their [...]
Surely it comes to no surprise to you, my gentle snowflakes, that Eschatology Week at The Voice of Stefan carries on in spite jarring chronological gaps and every indication that the subject has been, at last, exhausted. Just as the millennial turn in every imaginable calendar fans the flames of apocalyptic speculation, so the dawn [...]
Henry Neufeld of Participatory Bible Study recently received a review copy of the complete Orthodox Study Bible, and has published a couple of posts thus far in which he addresses two troubling aspects of that volume:
Isaiah 64 in the Orthodox Study Bible
Inane Comments in the Orthodox Study Bible
In the first post, Henry calls our attention [...]
Yesterday the Church celebrated with great joy the radiant feast of the Theophany, which brings to a close the festal season of the Nativity and Manifestation of Christ our God. Of course, I never mean to go on a blogging hiatus during the festivities, but it invariably happens that the frequent services of the season [...]
Today is the Second Day of Christmas, on which the Church celebrates with great joy the Synaxis of the Mother of God. As the Great Horologion notes, “This Assembly (Gk. σύναξις), which is our gathering to sing the glory of the Mother of God, takes place fittingly particularly for her as the one who gave [...]
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM
[http://anastasis.org.uk/Star%20of%20Bethlehem.htm]
Every year around Christmas reports appear in the papers or on television which claim to give an astronomical explanation of the Star of Bethlehem. They are all nonsense. St John Chrysostom in his homily on the story explains clearly why the Star could not have been a natural phenomenon, but that it [...]
On this, the 25th day of December, we celebrate the Nativity according to the flesh1 of Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ.
Χριστὸς γεννάται! Δοξάσατε!Christ is born! Give ye glory!
Мир Божији, Христос се роди! Ваистину се роди!Peace from God, Christ is born! Truly He is born!
“The incomprehensible and inexplicable Nativity of Christ [...]
This coming Wednesday, December 25/January 7, we will celebrate the Nativity of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ. As is well known, the “birth narratives” in the Gospels of St Matthew and St Luke are filled with one miraculous occurrence after another, which admittedly cause a great deal of trouble to many “modern,” “enlightened” [...]
III. Books Found
2008 was the year in which I was at long last reunited with my library in exile. (Of course, my move has necessarily caused the exile of the choice books I had with me in Puerto Rico, but let’s not think about that right now.) After my first rescue expedition to Grand Rapids [...]
A new (civil) year has dawned, my gentle snowflakes, and since this blog is written by a bookish nerd for those of like proclivities, no better way to mark the occasion occurs to me than to recapitulate in this, the first post of the year, some of the book happenings of the year just past. [...]
