Regeneration secures right knowledge as well as right feeling; and right feeling is not the effect of right knowledge, nor is right knowledge the effect of right feeling. The two are inseparable effects of a work which affects the whole soul." —Cornelius Van Til...
Dissertation
Blogape vs. C.S. Lewis? Joyfully, No.
My dissertation chapter on joy argues that the article on joy from the Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible is mistaken about much of the following. Joy. Positive human condition that can be either feeling or action. The Bible uses joy in both senses. Joy as Feeling. Joy...
Dissertations Completed: 1
"I don’t like anything here at all." said Frodo, "step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air and water all seem accursed. But so our path is laid." "Yes, that’s so," said Sam. "And we shouldn’t be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we started." My wife and...
Dissertation Update 42
A few weeks ago I got word that my dissertation defense had been moved; it's now set for Monday afternoon, May 2. Please do pray for me if you think of it. I'm busy preparing for the defense; the full defense draft should be turned in this week by Friday at the...
QCNT
If you aren't meticulous in your note-taking, always using quotation marks and saving your full citation, you might accidentally do this: One of the distinguishing marks of the child of God is love, a love that originates in God, displays itself in actions of...
I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends
I need your help. If not now, when? If not you, who else? The other reader of this blog?! But you kind of have to know a little Greek—or at least know the letters and basic ideas about conjugation. Here's my problem: BDAG, the standard Κοίνη Greek lexicon, is telling...
Yes! Yes! Yes!
I ran across this in my Theological Journal Library in Logos a few weeks ago, and I literally laughed with delight. Maybe you'd have to be living in the country I live in right now (Dissertationastan) to find this as perfectly glorious as I did, but perhaps people in...
Dissertation Completed—Sort Of!
I have reached the end of the dissertation, but I'm 3,395 words over my absolute top word limit and I have some editing to do anyway. I hope to accomplish that today. I praise the Lord for in-laws who let me work in their basement for two weeks (they got time with...
Ceslas Spicq on Luke 6:34
In the last few chapters of my dissertation I am planning on using Ceslas Spicq, a Catholic scholar of the 20th century, as somewhat of a whipping boy. No doubt he was much smarter than I and much more widely read (in both senses!), but there are some significant...
Ticker Updated
Two big chapters just got approved, so my Dissertation Word Count Ticker has been duly updated. Thank you for your prayers, those who have prayed. I've been able to accomplish much by God's grace in recent months. I have some major distance left to travel, but I'm on...