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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
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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
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It's been a few months since I wrote one of these posts. Honestly, I have little to report - all my side projects have slowed to almost nothing at present. Most of my time is currently devoted to thesis-writing, the small amount of tutoring I do, and looking
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I've had the experience of alternately learning and teaching languages online for about 5, hedging on 6, years now. I've learnt, and taught, 1-to-1, 1-to-many, though never many-to-1 (I'm not sure that's a model that helps
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Not really a state of the projects, since most of my projects have been sidelined recently... My wife and I just had a baby girl, Sorcha (here if you want some pronunciation help), who turned up a few weeks early. Wonderful times but it did throw a spanner in my
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I'm trying to cultivate a new habit, and the title is it. Everytime I find myself writing something like, "the word ὑπόστασις means "blah de blah blah'", I stop and rewrite it to something more like, "the word ὑπόστασις translates as 'blah&