During last week of Wheatstone Academy, several intuitions about the state of Christian youth were broadly confirmed: 1) It seems that on the whole, attention spans are decreasing considerably. Most students have a difficult time paying attention for longer than 30 minutes. 2) Unlike Brett’s experience, most of the students I talked to knew enough [...]
Archive for July, 2007
July 31, 2007
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The Anthropology of Romans Four: Conclusion and Footnotes
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Theology (Bible)VIII. Conclusion My initial move was to outline interpretations of two exegetical issues, namely anthropology and justification, pointing out that a fundamental tension exists within exegesis of both issues, namely which paradigm has primacy in Paul’s thought, the individual or corporate. It seems that little clarification is offered by “new perspective” thinkers or “traditionalists” as [...]
July 31, 2007
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Quotable: Fred Sanders Edition
By Matthew Lee Anderson in QuotationsDr. Fred Sanders is one of the smartest and most interesting people I’ve ever met. Conversations with him are stimulating and challenging. His last two posts at Scriptorium Daily have been exemplary in both these regards. From a prayer for the offering: O Lord! We cannot trust ourselves with our own money, and we sure [...]
July 31, 2007
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the need to recover tradition – II
By Keith E. D. Buhler in UncategorizedFrancis Beckwith said, “Moreover, much of what I have taken for granted as a Protestant—e.g., the catholic creeds, the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation, the Christian understanding of man, and the canon of Scripture—is the result of a Church that made judgments about these matters and on which non-Catholics, including Evangelicals, have declared [...]
July 30, 2007
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Producing for the Motherland: the Nazification of Russia’s Youth
By Matthew Lee Anderson in International PoliticsThis has to be one of the most bizarre reports I have read in some time: Remember the mammoths, say the clean-cut organisers at the youth camp’s mass wedding. “They became extinct because they did not have enough sex. That must not happen to Russia”. Obediently, couples move to a special section of dormitory tents [...]
July 30, 2007
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Emoticons: Yes or No?
By Matthew Lee Anderson in TechnologyWhile some people are certainly worse than I, I have been known to drop a “:)” or a “;)” in my emails. Most of the time, it is unreflective and stems from, I think, an inability to properly use language to indicate the tone which I am striving to attain. I’m not alone. Emoticons have [...]
July 30, 2007
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Attack!
By Tex in While Deployed“Alarm red, alarm red, alarm red. All aircraft and vehicles will hold their position until further notice. The airfield is currently under attack.” The radio crackled to life with the startling announcement. The gravity of the situation was made more chilling simply because of the matter-of-fact tone of voice in which it was said; the [...]
July 30, 2007
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The Anthropology of Romans Four: Romans 4 with Respect to 5-8
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Theology (Bible)VII. Romans 4 with Reference to 5-8 In the preceding section I argued that the thematic similarities between Romans 4 and Joseph and Aseneth support my argument that “new creation” is at work in Romans 4. However, this is clearly not sufficient. Hubbard’s argument locates “new creation” in the death-life imagery of Romans 5-8, and [...]
July 29, 2007
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The Anthropology of Romans Four: The Anthropology of Romans Four
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Theology (Bible)(Warning: because this is the heart of the argument, a lengthy post follows). VI. The Anthropology of Romans 4 It is perhaps easiest to begin outside of Paul’s writings to highlight two traditions that Paul may have been aware of, strains of which seem interwoven into the argument of Romans 4. In the above section, [...]
July 28, 2007
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The Anthropology of Romans Four: Continuing with Romans Four
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Theology (Bible)Romans 4.9-12 In this section of Romans 4, Paul engages either in actual dialogue or in a bit of dialectical rhetoric with an imaginary interlocutor. Moxnes thinks the former, arguing that Paul is addressing conflict within the contemporary situation in Rome and is at pains to reorient the church’s theological understanding of the relationship between [...]
July 27, 2007
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The Anthropology of Romans Four: The Turn to Romans Four
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Theology (Bible)V. Romans 4 Paul has just finished arguing that a man is only justified by faith, and not by “works of the law.” In Romans 4, Paul turns to Abraham as an example of this. Moo identifies two reasons for using Abraham: (1) Abraham is used by Paul as an example of faith in a [...]
July 26, 2007
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The Anthropology of Romans Four: An Exegesis of Romans 3:20-31
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Theology (Bible)IV. Romans 3.20-31 Because Paul’s argument in Romans 4 is an extension of what he has already said, it is necessary to set up our analysis of Romans 4 by examining what Paul had just argued. The debate between traditional and “new perspectival” understandings of justification hinges upon one’s interpretation of the role of the [...]
July 25, 2007
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The Alley
By Tex in While DeployedOutside the Turkish air base is a small community whose official name is hardly ever used, being known to everyone simply as “The Alley.” Consisting mostly of small shops, restaurants, and bars, it exists to provide goods and services to the military men and women on base. A quick perusal of what sells to the [...]