Monthly Archives: December 2010

The Devil’s Dandruff

It started snowing when I got to church this morning and by the time I got out the roads were horrible.  I hate snow.  But I hate driving in snow more than I hate snow itself.  I’d take a picture … Continue reading

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A Huge Step

As we approach the end of the first decade of the new millennium I’ve taken a huge step forward, technologically speaking.  I’ve finally downloaded iTunes.  I know, you can’t believe that I’ve made it this long without it.  Well, I … Continue reading

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Help a Brother Out

Update: Theophrastus got me a copy. I’m in search of the following article: Joseph W. Trigg, “The Angel of Great Counsel: Christ and the Angelic Hierarchy in Origen’s Theology,” JTS 42/1 (1991): 35- 51. If anyone can help me out … Continue reading

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Books for Christmas

I got two books today. My mom gave me Millard Erickson’s Who’s Tampering with the Trinity?: An Assessment of the Subordination Debate.  My dad gave me G. L. Prestige’s God in Patristic Thought.  I’m very excited about both books!  I’m … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas!

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, … Continue reading

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Almost There

Only one gift left to wrap and then it’s dinner and some rest before I head out to midnight mass at my old church, St. Anthony of Padua.  The choir is going to be performing with strings, handbells, and trumpets … Continue reading

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True Grit

Unlike The Tourist, True Grit is perhaps the best movie I’ve seen all year.  I’m not one for westerns, generally speaking, but the Cohen bros. are geniuses and anything they do, no matter where it’s set, is sure to get … Continue reading

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The Tourist

Perhaps the worst movie I’ve seen all year.  You’d think that Angelina Jolie and Johhny Depp would make a good movie, but no, they didn’t.  They made an incredibly slow, boring, and unoriginal movie.  It felt like seeing something that … Continue reading

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In the Mail (or, Christmas Come Early)

I was sitting in the living room wrapping presents when I heard a thud on the front porch.  To my great surprise it was a package from Eerdmans containing Urban C. von Wahlde’s 3 volumes on The Gospel and Letters … Continue reading

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Quote of the Day

Suzanne Nicholson: Theology and Christology are so thoroughly tied together in Paul’s thought that one cannot speak of Christology apart from theology. Who Christ is cannot be separated  from who God is. It is the one God who, through Christ, … Continue reading

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