Larry Hurtado has posted about views of early Christian Christology. He says that proponents of the view that significant development took place over the course of the first century of Christianity fail to do justice to the exalted status of Jesus and devotional practice evidenced from the beginning. I would respond by saying that proponents of early high Christology often fail to do justice to just how different the Gospel of John is from the Gospels of Mark and Luke.... Read more
If you are looking for a digital Christmas gift for someone, I would recommend considering the following, which I heard previously and loved and was lucky enough to get as an early Christmas gift this year: A Composer’s Christmas. On this delightful album, Jeffrey Reid Baker arranges Christmas songs in the style of famous composers. My favorite is “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” in the style of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2. Read more
Lots of intriguing details – the Silence, Trenzalore, the time war, and perhaps most interesting of all, the Doctor’s door from “The God Complex.” It looks like dangling loose ends from the past will be tied together in a nice little Christmas present for us all! HT IO9 Read more
You saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day; You saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas Day in the morning?! That would have been a miracle, Or far advanced technology Such as appears on Doctor Who On Christmas Day in the morning. For Bethlehem’s a landlocked town, On Christmas Day, and every day; Yes Bethlehem’s a landlocked town, And not just in the morning. None would have noticed angels’ songs A star so bright,... Read more
I am astonished by how often students claim that “everyone is different” and think that they have said something relevant to discussion of topics such as morality or religion. Human beings are not entirely different from one another, and it is not clear that things which no two humans have in common pertain to either of these areas, or any of the others in which students tend to assert that people are all different. Morality, religion, music, food, and many... Read more
I am grateful to IVP for sending me a complementary review copy of David Wilkie’s Coffee with Jesus. I hope that most people are already familiar with the comic series on the Radio Free Babylon website, which has been widely shared (and sometimes imitated) online. The cartoon uses the same figures in the same poses over and over again, yet with differing text that has often managed to provide a succinct and powerfully challenging message. If you enjoy the series, the... Read more
I know that they could only include twelve because of the song lyrics. But it still hurt that they left one Doctor in particular out… Read more
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For some reason the fact that a Mesopotamian version of the flood story contains an enormous circular ark is making news headlines in the Daily Mail and the International Business Times. HT All Mesopotamia Read more
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