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The Great Books Honors College
I’m pleased to say that the new website for the Great Books Honors College at Faulkner University is out of beta. The site has been a work in progress for a while but has, at this point, come together fairly nicely and completely. Of particular interest here is the College’s Christian Institute for the Study…
Gadamer on Prejudicial Frameworks
According to Hans-Georg Gadamer, Prejudices [i.e., prejudgments] are not necessarily unjustified and erroneous, so that they inevitably distort the truth. In fact, the historicity of our existence entails that prejudices, in the literal sense of the word [i.e., prejudgments], constitute the directedness of our whole ability to experience. Prejudices are biases of our openness to…
Logos Resources
To complement the earlier pre-publication release of its Hebrew Bible counterpart, Logos Bible Software now has the first six volumes of the Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament Series available for order through its pre-publication program. Also noteworthy are the 12 Days of Logos promotions on Calvin’s Commentaries and the Pillar New Testament Commentary.
Irenaeus on 666 and 616
In his Against Heresies, Irenaeus argues that 666 is a particularly “fitting” number for the name of the beast in Rev 13:18: since he sums up in his own person all the commixture of wickedness which took place previous to the deluge, due to the apostasy of the angels. For Noah was six hundred years…
Osborne’s Hermeneutical Spiral (12 Days of Logos)
Today, the second edition of Grant Osborne’s Hermeneutical Spiral for Logos Bible Software has come on sale. According to Osborne, hermeneutics is a spiral from text to context–a movement between the horizon of the text and the horizon of the reader that spirals nearer and nearer toward the intended meaning of the text and its…
BHHB on Pre-pub at Logos
The first four volumes of the Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible Series are now available for order from Logos Bible Software via their pre-publication program. In general, Rather than devote space to the type of theological and exegetical comments found in most commentaries, this series instead focuses on the Hebrew text and its related…