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PbloPicasso
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Does anyone have a recommendation about reading this author’s historical works.
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Wesley7
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If I can remember he was a former Lutheran who converted to orthodoxy and in the process wrote a few books.
There is no specific book I would recommend.
There is no specific book I would recommend.
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edward_george
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I’m working on his book Jesus Through the Centuries right now, and I highly recommend it. It’s a history of the different cultural perceptions of Christ throughout the ages, from the Roman Empire down to the present day. Makes excellent spiritual or academic reading.
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PbloPicasso
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Wesley,
There is a recent Orthodox historian that wrote a book. Do you recall his name. BTW: Pelikan wrote more than a few books. He wrote a library it seems. Yes, his father was a Lutheran Priest and his Grandfather a Bishop from what I read.
And “Go Packers!”
I’m sorry for the Steelers loss as well.
I feel so torn :stretcher:
There is a recent Orthodox historian that wrote a book. Do you recall his name. BTW: Pelikan wrote more than a few books. He wrote a library it seems. Yes, his father was a Lutheran Priest and his Grandfather a Bishop from what I read.
And “Go Packers!”
I’m sorry for the Steelers loss as well.
I feel so torn :stretcher:
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Wesley7
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I understand what a Orthodox historian (Contemporary 20th C.) is but cannot recall any specific name.
One particular historian is Eusebius Pamphilus.
One particular historian is Eusebius Pamphilus.
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Crumpy
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He wrote a volume called Whose Bible is it? (as I recall). It’s a quick read about how Catholics, Jews, and Muslims view the ancient texts.
Wha stuck with me was his exposition on how much tradition is really involved in understanding scripture.
Without chapter numbers, verse numbers, punctuation, vowels, footnotes, etc. the Hebrew text requires a lot of training just to read, not to mention understand.
When you open up your Old Testament and start reading anyplace in English, you are buying into a whole lot more of tradition than you probably would think you are, with a lot of evidence of how some arbitrary decisions were made.
The modern English names of books of the Bible are still adhered to in Jewish Enlish translations, although it is their custom to name the books from a key word in the first several words of a book.
So,the book of Numbers has a lot of numbers in it, of course, but the Jews like to use the word which means “In the Wilderness” which is also descriptive of the book and taken from the first line.
Deuteronomy means something llike “second law” but the Jews title the book Devarim (“words”) taken from the first line, referring to the fact that this book is largely the words of Moses.
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Wha stuck with me was his exposition on how much tradition is really involved in understanding scripture.
Without chapter numbers, verse numbers, punctuation, vowels, footnotes, etc. the Hebrew text requires a lot of training just to read, not to mention understand.
When you open up your Old Testament and start reading anyplace in English, you are buying into a whole lot more of tradition than you probably would think you are, with a lot of evidence of how some arbitrary decisions were made.
The modern English names of books of the Bible are still adhered to in Jewish Enlish translations, although it is their custom to name the books from a key word in the first several words of a book.
So,the book of Numbers has a lot of numbers in it, of course, but the Jews like to use the word which means “In the Wilderness” which is also descriptive of the book and taken from the first line.
Deuteronomy means something llike “second law” but the Jews title the book Devarim (“words”) taken from the first line, referring to the fact that this book is largely the words of Moses.
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IowaJay
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Pelikan was ordained in the Lutheran Church Missouri-Synod, but when a schism occurred in that church in the early 1970s, he ended up in one of the churches that eventually merged into the ELCA. He was received into Orthodoxy while he was well into his 70s, and died in about 2005. Most of his books were written while a Lutheran, and he participated in the project which translated over 50 volumes of Luther’s works into English.
His crowning achievement was his five volume history of the Christian theology. It is not for beginners studying historical theology, but if you have a good grasp of theological terms and a general outline of Christian history, it is an indispensable series of books. Volume 1 is here:
amazon.com/Christian-Tradition-Development-Doctrine-Emergence/dp/0226653714/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297175981&sr=1-1
His crowning achievement was his five volume history of the Christian theology. It is not for beginners studying historical theology, but if you have a good grasp of theological terms and a general outline of Christian history, it is an indispensable series of books. Volume 1 is here:
amazon.com/Christian-Tradition-Development-Doctrine-Emergence/dp/0226653714/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297175981&sr=1-1
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Hesychios
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Top notch scholar.Does anyone have a recommendation about reading this author’s historical works.
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