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.
November 6, 2008 – 11:42 am
For Dan:
You can find out more about the Jesus Seminar on their site and there is a site dedicated to the output of N T Wright called, unsurprisingly, the N T Wright Page. For more on Marcus Borg visit A Portrait of Jesus.
The ‘morphing’ Jesus is here.
October 23, 2008 – 11:15 am
“Abandon hope, all ye who enter here”. This famous phrase is written above the gate of Hell in a 14th century poem by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. The poem is called the Divine Comedy and Hell is known as Dante’s Inferno.
The warning is well made, for beyond it is a panoply of horror - [...]
October 7, 2008 – 5:03 pm
I feel that the events of Genesis 6 (especially the Nephilim) is probably best understood against the background of the Watcher Narrative. This can be found in the Book of Enoch, chapters 1 to 36 and you can read it online here.
For some more information on the Enoch literature in general, have a look [...]
October 5, 2008 – 9:22 am
As promised, here is my brief rush through Revelation from a socio-political perspective: enjoy.
September 26, 2008 – 12:14 pm
For Dan:
The existentialist philosopher I mentioned yesterday is Søren Kierkegaard, and much of his writing is available online.
You can view the Roman Catholic Catechism here and the section dealing with the role of tradition is here. An Eastern Orthodox perspective can be found on the Greek Orthodox Achdiocese of America’s website.
You might (or might [...]
September 24, 2008 – 12:51 pm
We spent some time on Monday discussing the authority of scripture and the development of the canon in the early church. You’ll find all sorts of websites on this issues, most of them from a Protestant or Roman Catholic point of view, but I’d like to steer you towards an Orthodox viewpoint.
Our Life in [...]
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 [...]
