Tag Archives: Christianity Today
- August 6, 2008
- Overview of the Acts of Thecla– also tagged Ancient Fiction And Early Christian Narrative, Ancient Novel, Antioch, Asia Minor, Corinthians, Disciple Of Paul, Discipleship, Disjoint, Early Christianity, Fales, Female Disciple, Goodspeed, Harvard University Press, Independent Work, J Bradley Chance, Judith Perkins, Kate Cooper, Konya, Late Antiquity, Oral Tradition, Proper Introduction, Protagonist, Rhetoric, Romance Novel, Ronald F Hock, Scholars Press, Textual Tradition, Thec, Thecla, Tides
Monday we finished looking at the Thecla Cult in early Christianity. Today we will take stock of the actual text itself before looking at the tides of rhetoric it employed.
The textual tradition of the Acts of Thecla effectively co-opted and modified established patterns rhetoric for its own ends. We will explore one of these pre-existing [...]
- August 4, 2008
- Devotees of Hagia Thekla– also tagged Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Author Of Life, Bandits, Christian Period, Christian Pilgrimage, Convent, Devotees, Diary Of Life, Dietz, Early Christianity, Encroachment, Gender Roles, Geographical Lines, Homelessness, Ibid, Itinerants, Late Antiquity, Leaving Home, Linda Ellis, Martyr, Miracles, Monastics, Patronage, Pilgrims, Primary Sources, Virgins, Wanderer, Wanderers, Wanderings
Last Friday, we looked at the physical shrine of Hagia Thekla and what it said about gender roles in early Christianity. Today, I wanna look at the actions and attitudes of the real people who lived and traveled there. We will see that the devotees that worshiped, vistied, and lived at Hagia Thekla were from [...]
- March 30, 2008
- Controversey at Westminster– also tagged Academic Freedom, Academic Realm, Assum, Black Eye, Controversey, Desperate Need, Employability, Evangelical Faith, Evangelicalism, Imho, Incarnation, Jesus Words, Outset, Perils, Professor Peter, School Year, Verbal Inspiration, Westminster Seminary, Westminster Theological Seminary
Westminster Theological Seminary Suspended Professor Peter Enns effective at the end of this school year and will take steps to terminate his employment because of a book he wrote back in 2005 entitled Inspiration and Incarnation (review), which calls into question more conservative models of scripture while remaining wholly “[apologetic] and assum[ing] an evangelical faith [...]
- October 26, 2007
- Worshipping at the Altar of the Bitch Goddess of Relativism– also tagged Bitch Goddess, Case Ct, Charles Colson, Christian Virtues, Disagreement, Disciple, Discipleship, Divorce And Remarriage, Excrement, Extreme Example, John Piper, Marriage Divorce And Remarriage, Modernity, Nature Of Revelation, Postmodernity, Real Truth, Relativism, Theological Articles
I’ve come to appreciate Christianity Today over the last few years. While in college, when doctrine was merely an abstract idea waiting to be debated, I found CT quite lacking. But as I’ve grown in the Lord and matured as a person I’ve realized there are not only excellent theological articles in CT, but there [...]