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Friday, November 13th, 2009
Since moving house and therefore closing the door on chapter of my life where I dallied with the idea of returning to St Francis' Theological College at some point to continue my Jedi training, I've been thinking about the future of this blog. I haven't had the time to write ...
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
I had to give back the early church history book I was neglecting as we have moved interstate. As you may know, this blog is also severly neglected. More on that later. I'll quickly note here some other chapters I covered.
In a climate where it was becoming more and more ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
I can't say I know much about "Nero":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero apart from that he apparently played his fiddle while Rome burned. As far as early church history goes, he has the honour of being emperor in power when it became illegal to be a Christian in the Roman empire. There are ...
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
When I started this blog I was going to write something in it every week but I now see it's been almost a month since I managed to put fingers to keyboard. Alas, in this time I have read exactly one more chapter of _The First Christian Centuries_ so ...
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
I mentioned last week that I was going to read an introductory text on early church history. The book I was referring to was "Paul McKechnie, _The First Christian Centuries: Perspectives on the Early Church_,":http://www.amazon.com/First-Christian-Centuries-Perspectives-Church/dp/0830826777 (Illinois: InterVarsity Press: 2001) which I've borrowed from the good brothers at "The Society ...
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
I've decided to spend a bit of time in my current theological self education looking at early church history. I've borrowed an introductory text but before I open it, I thought I'd get down some ideas of my own with absolutely no references to speak of. Let's see if ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Being a father of very young children, I don't get out to party much which is probably why I didn't even notice St Patrick's day come and go this week. On having a quick read of the "wikipedia page":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Day on St Patrick's day I noticed a paragraph quoting a ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Tonight I read the "Wikipedia entry on Lent":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent seeing as the start of lent completely passed me by. I knew before that the practice of lent comes from the forty days that Jesus spent in the desert after he was baptised. I also knew that lent is traditionally ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
I mentioned a month or two back that I've been reading _The Wreck of Western Culture_ by John Carroll. I didn't end up finishing this book (well I skimmed the last bit) because I lost what the point of it was and then it became very overdue from the library. ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Ironically, the Christmas period affords me little time for spiritual and theological reflection because I am usually busy trying to attend to various family and social commitments! But I have been reading and listening to theology. On the listening front, I'm still subscribed to the Philosopher's Zone on ...
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