The scriptures, the faithful, and the living God
I've only skimmed through the ITC document published yesterday -- Theology Today: Perspectives, Principles, and Criteria. Worth noting are a few paragraphs that discuss the core identity of theology...
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I haven't posted in over a month, and while I'm usually loath to get too autobiographical here, I thought I'd write a quick update for lack of anything else.The winter quarter is always a bit rough...
View ArticleAn interesting, if trivial, bibliographic discovery
Did you know that in the same issue of the Review of Metaphysics that W.V.O. Quine published his essay "On What There Is", a young George Lindbeck published a note "On Aristotle's Discussion of God and...
View ArticleThe openness of scholarship
Another round of chatter about open access has come up, this time stemming from a statement by the president of the Archaeological Institute of America (and from there to discussions on early...
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Rödl on human intellect
On the nature of human intellect, Sebastian Rödl writes: "Our intellect depends on what it represents; it is dependent on its object's being given to it. This can be understood in two ways: such that...
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More on human intellect: Reich
Related to Rödl's comments on human intellect, Klaus Reich discusses thought in a way that might also be employed toward an understanding of the Kantian distinction between God and humanity,...
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Niebuhrian Inspirations
The latest two PhD Comics are, I'm sure, familiar to many of you. They work especially well for me as the kid's name is apparently Sophie.On these occasions, I try to think about how many...
View ArticleA Practical Consideration on Doctoral Stipends
We have been looking into buying a car lately – used, but newer and more reliable than the 1996 Honda Accord we drive right now. During this process we’ve checked into getting a small auto loan in...
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Pro Communione is out!
I just found out today that Wipf & Stock has published Pro Communione: Theological Essays on the Anglican Covenant. This long-awaited volume of essays is the first book-length treatment of the...
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Gerhard Müller has been named the new prefect of the CDF. Müller is a close friend of the pope, and the editor of his collected works. With the move of William Levada out of this position, it will be...
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When is a university not a university?
It has been some time now since the University of Missouri Press first faced threats of closure from Timothy Wolfe, the president of the university. This week a new scheme has been announced to keep...
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In Memoriam: Ralph Del Colle
I've just read the unfortunate news that Ralph Del Colle has died (another post about his work and his passing can be found here).My only personal interaction with him was brief; I was visiting...
View ArticleRefutations of subjectivism in Schleiermacher (and Kant)
I was just rereading a paper of mine where I quote from what I think is a very helpful article by Robert Williams, “Schleiermacher and Feuerbach on the Intentionality of Religious Consciousness.” What...
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Semantik der Gelassenheit
A project that I would love to undertake if I had more time and linguistic ability would be a study of theological concepts surrounding the root of "letting" (lassen, laisser, etc.). In German the...
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Kyle Rader reviews Augustine and the Trinity.Crossing Many Borders: the study of medieval canon law. At the Regenstein Library yesterday, I noticed a sign up for a forthcoming exhibit - Swiss...
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Today's bibliographic acquisitions...
The library used book sale has been going on this week, and it's a great time to get some valuable material. This time around they had a handful of 19th century German works that I decided to add to...
View Article"Get With the Programme" and be more theological... Coakley on the Church of...
I started writing this as a comment for the F&T post about Sarah Coakley's article, "Has the Church of England Finally Lost Its Reason?", but for reasons of length I decided to post it...
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The Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain will be published by Cambridge beginning in 2013, under the new title, Hegel Bulletin. A new edition of Denzinger is out with Ignatius Press.David...
View ArticleTheology Journal Surveys?
I used to post a good bit about academic journals, often with an eye to how theology as a discipline could improve its review and publishing practices. The topic hasn't come up in a while (I haven't...
View ArticleGun control and "the powers"
Rick Elgendy is a fellow doctoral student here at the University of Chicago Divinity School who is doing work in political theology, offering an account of the possibility of resistance within a...
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