November 13, 2008 – 11:05 am
The Roman Empire is clearly an important background to not only the New Testament but also Early Christianity. Google Earth have added a new Ancient Rome layer, and it’s good!
Go find out more by looking here and here.
Those of you who have been asking me those endless questions about events in Florida might be interested in this:
Church Times - Anglican churches embrace Florida ‘revival’
Last week I was asked for some resources which would give a short introduction to Catholicism, something on not only the theology but also the culture.
I’m still looking for the ultimate resource, but here are some which might help:
The Catechism of the Catholic Church is the authoritative document on “the Church’s faith and of catholic [...]
James mentioned a collection of videos made by students of Calvin College in the US of a visit to London in 2008. They focus on the worship led emergent church movement and you can get to them via their channel on Youtube.
Picture from Arturo
Mr. Gramling’s Flamingo Road Church, which has a weekly attendance of 8,000, is based in Broward County, Fla., where he records his sermons on DVD for screenings here, as well as at three branches in South Florida. Each church uses the same distinctive music, banners and logo — a white cube bisected by [...]
The issue of chapters and verses came up last week. The Latin Bible (Vulgate) was first divided into chapters in the 13th century, most probably by Stephen Langton who was later to be the Archbishop of Canterbury. As to verses, this is normally credited to Robert Stephanus a Parisian book printer who completed [...]
ELIZABETH II Dei Gratia REGina Fidei Defensor
meaning
Elizabeth II, by the grace of God, Queen and Defender of the Faith
Ok, I acknowledge that the thought of more lectures might not be the most pressing issue for you at the moment, but bear with me!
There are a number of universities who are putting their lecture series online. These are recordings made of undergraduate lectures and are therefore well within the scope of things you [...]
UC Berkely have made available mp3s of various lecture series, which are well worth a look. Last time, I mentioned three lectures on Dante’s Divine Comedy which are part of a course on Man, God, and Society in Western Literature delivered buy Hubert Dreyfus. The course description is:
Man, God, and Society in Western [...]
This is a map of the Roman Empire in 395 (the death of Theodosius I) from Wikipedia. The purple area is the Greek speaking, Eastern empire and the red is the Latin speaking, Western empire. There are four patriarchs in the East and one (Rome) in the West.
By 476, the map looks like [...]
