Tag: Liberal Arts
International Journal of the Platonic Tradition
Starting this year, the International Journal of the Platonic Tradition has become fully and openly accessible online (HT: Charles Jones).
New Aquinas Translations
Through their pre-publication program, Logos Bible Software is now offering English translations of Thomas Aquinas’s commentaries on Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the Sentences of Peter Lombard. Aquinas’s Summa Theologica and Summa Contra Gentiles have been available in English for some time, but once enough pre-publication orders have accumulated, Logos’s texts of these three commentaries will be the first time they have…
Frightful Fishing and Forgiven Catching
Although the calling of Simon Peter appears in all three synoptic Gospels (Matt 4:18–20; Mark 1:16–18; Luke 5:1–11; cf. John 1:35–51; 21:1–11), Luke’s narrative develops the pericope in much greater detail than Matthew’s or Mark’s. Luke 5:3 indicates that Jesus did some teaching from Simon’s boat. After concluding, Jesus instructs Simon to take the boat…
Forthcoming Lewis-Tolkien Documentary
Apparently, a new documentary about C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien is set to be released sometime next year. For the trailer, see below: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHG522z5_wU] One of the associate producers, Louis Markos, teaches at Houston Baptist University and has published several pieces on Lewis (HT: Jason Jewell).
Bonhoeffer’s Works
Fifteen print volumes of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s works are now available as a single set via Logos Bible Software’s pre-publication program. According to the product page: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most influential Christian martyrs in history, bequeathed to humanity a legacy of theological creativity and spirituality that continues to inspire people from a variety of…
Faithful Rahab
After assuming leadership over Israel (Josh 1:10–18), Joshua commissions two men to survey Jericho and the surrounding area (Josh 2:1a). Rather tersely, then, the menוילכו ויבאו בית־אשׁה זונה ושׁמה רחב וישׁכבו־שׁמה (Josh 2:1b; went and entered the house of a prostitute, whose name was Rahab, and they lodged there). For onlookers, such an action might…