Category: Weblog
On the Web (August 25, 2011)
On the web: James McGrath reflects on the value of liberal arts education. Emily Runde comments on the British Library’s ongoing exhibition of “illuminated” manuscripts from the “Dark” Ages, providing several stunningly vibrant page scans.
A New Medieval Historical Theology Collection
Logos releases a new collection for medieval historical theology, which includes: Aidan Nichols, Discovering Aquinas: An Introduction to His Life, Work, and Invluence and Lawrence Cunningham, Francis of Assisi: Performing the Gospel of Life. For more information, please see the product page.
Et tu, Brute . . . Facts
In the introduction to the second edition of Cornelius Van Til’s Christian Apologetics, Bill Edgar helpfully summarizes Van Til’s perspective on “brute facts”: For Van Til . . . there could never be isolated self-evident arguments or brute facts, because everything comes in a framework. That is why he calls his approach the “indirect method.”…
On the Web (August 24, 2011)
On the web: Alan Bandy discusses faith and scholarship. Tim Henderson discusses the possibility that σωτήρ was a late-developing nomen sacrum (part 1, part 2). Dirk Jongkind highlights some of Philip Davies’ recent comments on the Jordanian lead codices. Robert Woods reflects on reading Cicero’s On Old Age with college freshmen.
Memory, Textual Variation, and the Septuagint
James Tucker considers Timothy McLay’s comments regarding memory and textual variation in the use of Septuagintal texts, particularly 2 Kgdms 7; Amos 9:11 in conjunction with Acts 15:16.
On Academic Humility
James Garland has an insightful article, “The Value of Humility in Academe (No Kidding)” at the Chronicle of Higher Education. In part, Garland comments: The seminal moment [in encouraging my own academic hubris] came . . . when, having stumbled out of an impossibly difficult physics exam, I noticed a wall of portraits of former Princeton…