Archaic Christianity

If they want to get up to speed technologically when it comes to annual meetings, they should definitely organize their meetings like this group. The only downside would be the lack of centralized book displays and bargains...

John Hobbins is winning, both in rhetoric and argument. I'm interested to see where this goes.

Ben Byerly pointed out an interesting resource. It is the Moule Memorial Lecture given just the other day by Wright about the interaction of scholarship and Christian discipleship. Here is the full transcript. It is most definitely worth your time.

I've been out of town on vacation for the last few days, but I'm back again. I got a lot of reading done in my biography of Erasmus, so that should be finished soon. I got a good deal of sleep, so that was nice. I feel almost recharged.

Work has been beating me down of late. I have had some time to read and such, but, I must admin, when I am strapped by time and the options are blog or study, study must be my focus. You don't want me posting thoughtless posts, do you?

I am lazy try to be efficient with my time. So, I created a dictionary to use on the site. This way I can define what I mean once so I don't have to be redundant, be pleonastic, or repeat myself. If you see a term that you think I should define that I haven't yet, please leave me a note. Hope you guys find it useful.

I am home now. Yay. The first thing I did was to take a shower. The hot water in our camper ran out after about two minutes, so I never felt like I got truly clean. The thing I missed the most, though, was the study. There wasn't a good place to setup there and I didn't get much of a chance to study. I spent a little time in 1 Clement, a little in Pseudo-Apollodorus, and a little with Grant's biography of Constantine. I bet I was the only one at the lake with a hard-copy of LSJ.

It doesn't get much fresher than this folks. I just got in from seeing Iron Man. First off, it was a whole lot better than Hancock, which was mediocre. The only annoying thing about the experience were the idiots who were sitting behind me that wouldn't shut up.

I've been meaning to post about this for over a month now, but I forgot. Now that announcements, questions of awesomeness and whatnot for Hancock are coming out, I figured I should get around to doing this. I'm also going to see Iron Man tonight, so I figured I should blog about this one first since I saw it first.

For earth day, I made carbon dioxide. Plants need it to survive, so I did the earth a favor.

Over at his blog Mike posted a note about knowing a language fluently versus knowing a language linguistically. This was in response to my post yesterday about "knowing" a language. He's right, there is a difference. It's a good post, so go read it.

So now feedburner is irking me. I try to view my feed and it says I have three question marks appended to the beginning before the xml declaration. Well, I don't. I even checked the feed I have them:

I'm now going to follow the trend of everyone else in the world; I'm now going to host my feed through feedburner. The url to the fancy new feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/ArchaicChristianity. Kindly redirect your feed readers.

Update

So I've been working a lot lately. 10-14 hours day have been the norm. But, it looks like that is coming to an end. Yay! I can think, read, and post more.

I have commented once or twice on the Reclaiming the Mind blogs. I have never signed up for a mailing list with them. Yet, in one day, last week I received nine emails about supporting their ministry, or some newsletter, or blah blah blah.

As many in the biblioblogosphere are aware, Jim West's blog was deleted maliciously a little while back. I found some software that Jim should install so this doesn't happen again.

It is an interesting story, but the title of it is really quite wrong. This hit a few of the blogs recently and just got posted to the biblicalist, in both places debunked. "The Independent" last month put out an article entitled "Found at Last: The World's Oldest Missing Page." The article is interesting, so give it a read.

There's a few things that have popped up this month that I thought were particularly cool/interesting/thought provoking:

Yesterday I had lunch with Bryan Cox, a new blogger over at Thoughts on Antiquity, though he's not new to blogging, as the post explains. Anyway, enjoyed the lunch Bryan...

Wright recently made it onto Nightline to chat about the resurrection of the dead and heaven. It was interesting though nothing unexpected (from him) was said. Thanks for the heads up, Kris.

So my ex-coworker and friend David is coming over tonight. My son has met him before, and so I was trying to tell him that David was coming over. Here's how that conversation went. I was a little surprised.

So I just updated the site. This site is run on custom code that I wrote in ASP.NET, C#, and Sql Server 2005. That way, if I want a feature, then I can add it and don't have to wait on someone else. This time comes one major feature.

So I was tagged for this meme several days ago. I'm just now getting around to doing it.

For Michael's sake over at Pisteuomen, I am deleting the text of this post. It was fun while it lasted :)

If you are not my brother Kirk (and for most of you I am sure this is true), you may safely skip this post.

Some people see me as a programmer. Some people see me as a student of Scripture and Greek. But you will never really know the real Eric until to watch this video:

This snippet from Solzhenitsyn's Harvard address strikes me as smart. I have never read any Solzhenitsyn. This is probably because my education was sub-standard. I guess I need to add something by him to my reading list...

I am sorry, but I have to set Jim straight. If he needs proof that I have read some Zwingli, I'll give it to him. Of course, these pictures were in no way staged. My wife likes to randomly take pictures of me in my natural habitat (my study). I am, after all, very studly. And look, I have different shirts on when I read Wright and Zwingli. I'll even prove I have read some Wright. Clearly this is indisputable proof that these pictures were taking at two distinct periods! Here's me reading the latter...

Over at his blog Chris Tilling asked for people to point out their blogs so he could add them to his feed reader if he found the blog interesting. So Chris, here is why you should read my blog religiously:

There are a number of things one must do to become a great Christian thinker. One must study, be godly, and be able to communicate. But those criteria are easy to come up with, despite being hard to fulfill. Another criterion, much less appreciated, is the ability to insult the idiots those of inferior thinking that you may be dealing with at the moment.

I updated the site and added a few things. First, I'm starting now to put collations of ancient texts up here on the site. You can find them on my collations page. I have a number of other chapters collated but I have not yet converted them to the proper format. Some were from the class projects I mentioned before...

Because two just isn't enough, we had our third child yesterday. Samuel is our second man-child. So far he's been the most quiet of the kiddos. Hopefully this means he will be the contemplative type!

Welcome to the blog. I have decided, once again, to split my blogging of tech and biblical studies...