Sean Brenon is our guest writer this week! He has written a reply to last week’s post, written by David Henry. You can head over to Sean’s blog here and read his original post and other thoughts. Enjoy! The Meaning of Christmas What began as a tongue-in-cheek vendetta against the replacement of the meaning of…
Please welcome David Henry to the spotlight this week! He has graciously allowed us to post his thoughts on Christmas celebration. Feel free to head over to his blog for some eggnog at Fog on Pleasant Hill. Returning Fire A good friend of mine recently posted an attack on the “commercialization” of Christmas. While I…
For the Stacks Forgery and Counterforgery is the first comprehensive study of early Christian pseudepigrapha ever produced in English. In it, Ehrman argues that ancient critics–pagan, Jewish, and Christian–understood false authorial claims to be a form of literary deceit, and thus forgeries. Ehrman considers the extent of the phenomenon, the intention and motivations of ancient Greek,…
The lovely miss Rachel Olson has allowed us to re-post her thoughts on young adult fiction here. You can find her original post on her blog here. Enjoy! I’m going to wax biographical here for a second, but it will have a point. I read a good amount of Young Adult fiction into my late…
Fun stuff this week! For the Stacks When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and…
Hey all – This is a paper hand-picked by Mr. Appel, written by Natalie Williams for the freshman Augustine paper assignment last term. Enjoy! Every truly great story has a great beginning. Every epic is shaped by the way it starts. Though modern Christians too often forget this fact, Saint Augustine saw clearly the meaningful relationship between…
Here they are in all their glory! For the Stacks Richard Swinburne, one of the most distinguished philosophers of religion today, argues that science provides good grounds for belief in God. Why is there a universe at all? Why is there any life on Earth? How is it that discoverable scientific laws operate in the universe? Swinburne uses these methods…
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