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Download chrysostom_presentation.mp3 On the just passed Friday and Saturday I was delighted to attend the Seventh Saint Andrew's Patristic Symposium at St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College, Sydney. The topic was Chrysostom, and the keynote speakers were Wendy Mayer and Pauline Allen. Top class
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This is my introductory paragraph and my written description of contents: The following study compares the exegetical practices of two authors, Basil of Caesarea and Hilary of Poitiers, in two of their most significant works, Contra Eunomium and De Trinitate, in order to demonstrate that one of the features of
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I'm trying to wrap up chapter 8 right now. Here's what's in my thesis (more or less...) an overly long and complicated title: "An analysis and comparison of the exegetical practices of Basil of Caesarea in his Contra Eunomium, and Hilary of Poitiers
Books
On the continual raving of my friend Ryan, I picked up Susanna Elm's book, "Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome", and I thought I'd offer my thoughts as I read through it. The
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Well, July was a busy month, what with Trinity debates all over the internet to keep up with, teaching a Greek intensive on Gregory of Nazianzus' Oration 29 (a lot of fun, though we did not finish the text), and being sick for the last two weeks (an ear
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I was very glad to awake this morning and see that Geoffrey Steadman as returned to his Greek and Latin texts with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary projects with some very fine new additions. It has reminded me that I do need to return to my inspired-by-the-above Patristic
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One of the interesting things about the intra-Evangelical Complementarian Trinity Debate with a really-long-name, is that people's positions appear to fall out along some very clear party lines. The leading American ERAS/ESS/EFS proponents all come from very particular backgrounds. There's not
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I became intrigued by this modal construction recently, after I berated some undergraduates in my comments on their essay that what they really meant was ‘X cannot be overstated’. However, greater reflection leads to me to believe that, while they were probably wrong, the structure is ambiguous. It turns on
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(I'd never planned to get into this, but here are a few thoughts on the current debates, from mostly a historical perspective. I may (or may not) wade into the theological argument more seriously later.) 1. It’s much more difficult to accurately portray the 4th century controversies
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(nota bene: I was updating this post about daily with any new contributions I came across. I am no longer doing so, as the debate has largely moved on. [It's certainly not over, people are indeed still writing and blogging about it. I would say the initial storm
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I was disappointed not to go to the North American Patristics Society' conference for 2016, but I do not regret my decision not to go this year. Here's what not-going did for me: 1. I saved about $2000-3000 dollars and 4 days worth of air
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When I teach students who have (some) Greek (these are usually biblical studies/theology students), my go-to method is to use a text-based approach and in particular I tend to get them straight into John's Gospel in the Vulgate. Some classicists seem a little down on