Dr. James Cone is delivering our Convocation address at G-ETS this morning at 11:00 CT, and there will also be a panel discussion at 3:00 CT. His address is titled, “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Cross and the Lynching Tree in the Black Experience.” The link for the live webcasts is www.garrett.edu/convocation. Viewers [...]
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Akma and Mark (links are to their home pages) shared a Facebook link to the Geek Muse: 100 Reasons to Study Theology and Religion: A Call for Comments. With religion and theology departments coming under the knife, Geek Muse calls for your arguments: how do these programs benefit our society? What good are they? Give [...]
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Summary: AAR and SBL sit again at the same lunch table. Occasional brushing-together of feet probably not “footsie,” but promisingly, does not result in a masking tape dividing line on the floor.
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Summary: I am trying to learn something of the history and development of eastern religions in Korea, and am somewhat hampered by my lack of preparation in the “eastern religions” part. And in the “Korea” part.
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Summary: Can anyone suggest introductory, textbook-type readings on the development of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism in Korea?
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Summary: The current issue of Kids Discover is titled, “Mesopotamia,” and is simply unbelievable. Biblical and ancient Near East scholars should refuse food and drink until they get a copy.
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Summary: Answer: According to Crossley, this dread feeling could potentially unite biblical scholars of all competing stripes.
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Summary: Bruce Waltke made to resign from faculty position for acknowledging fact of evolution. President of seminary celebrates diversity of acceptable views overstepped by Waltke.
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Summary: an instructive kerfluffle about sectarian claims in the books and book reviews of academic biblical studies.
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Summary: Research is hard.
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