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Recently on twitter I suggested a number of reasons why there are relatively few Evangelicals involved in Patristics as an academic field. I felt that it wouldn’t be a waste of time to expand some of those thoughts into more considered reflections (as did Brandon Smith) Saying that, these
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This was mentioned to me by a student recently in a small group class that I am kind-of mentoring, and I think it’s worth adapting and sharing. The original idea, or at least where the student got it from, is Daniel Wallace, here. It’s the idea that
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Creeds originated as a confession of faith for believers to express their core convictions, especially in the context of instruction for, and the practice of, baptism. They took the essential elements of the Christian faith, as taught and held by the church consistently across the world, and framed that around
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What exactly is the copyright status of ancient texts in modern editions? Nobody knows and most of us are too afraid to find out. I'm not a lawyer, and this is not a legal opinion, but it is an opinion about legal matters. Also, copyright legislation differs from
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A response to Fran’s comments here. I don’t think anything I have to say here is particularly new, from my perspective, in that I haven’t changed my views that much in the past couple of years. An old but still valid post on this topic is here.
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Late last Wednesday I received the email from our Higher Degree Research Office informing me that my doctoral dissertation had been passed, "subject to some corrections". It was a while later before I was able to begin to read through the examiners' reports. In our Australian system
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I don't know if anyone enjoys these or not, but they are helpful for me to write. PhD Still waiting on examiners’ reports. It will be 3 months on Monday, so I really do expect to hear shortly. #Jobsearch Continues to be unsuccessful. 9 rejections and 1 job
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There was a great recent article on Eidolon, “What is the Best Way to Learn Latin?”, which is a conversation between Daniel Gallagher (student of Foster) and Eleanor Dickey, mediated by Michael Fontaine. The article is great for a few reasons. Firstly, Dickey has done some great work on ancient
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This little piece is me responding in my own way to Alison Innes’ post “Thoughts on Twitter Outreach” and it in turn bounces off Michael Fontaine’s “Promoting Classics to the Public – what worked, what didn’t what couldn’t” Firstly, I find “Outreach” a funny thing in the Classics
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The other day I mentioned Zuntz, and I realised later that many do not know about this wonderful text. So in this post I'm going to introduce/overview it for you. Günther Zuntz (1902 - 1992) was a phenomenally gifted classical philologist and scholar. You can read about his
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Yesterday I tweeted a quote from the preface to Günther Zuntz's monstrous "A Course in Classical and Post-Classical Greek". It's only monstrous because of its size. Zuntz leaves no stone unturned, not even the tiny crushed ones that were what was left of
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I have a vested interest in this topic, since I’ve just completed a PhD in the field and would like a job in it. So, I thought it would be interesting to look at the place of ECS/ECH (Early Christian Studies/History) in Australian tertiary institutions. By ECS,