Metametametalanguage
I’m writing a blog post about a blog post about an Internet article about the use of the Internet. So here goes. Click here for Alan Jacobs‘ comments on this New York Magazine article. Jacobs…
In the Nick of Time
Kevin Bauder of Central Seminary is always worth hearing. And this blog hears him. It’s my firm desire that this blog never be what he describes in the last line of the following paragraph of…
Love and Hate; ἀγαπάω and μισέω
If hate is the opposite of love, as many passages indicate, then why don’t we have a book called The Four Hates? Why don’t preachers fulminate against the scary hate of a mother for her…
ἀγάπη Rejoinders
I recently posted a few of the kinds of statements my dissertation is opposing. For example, a Bible textbook avers, “Love is not an emotion, but an act of the will. Feelings may ebb and…
Regeneration and the Second Great Commandment
May the absolute necessity of regeneration never stop me from doing good to my neighbor when it is in my power to do it. A … combination of theological principle and careerist caution meant that…