I mentioned previously the benefits of making students memorize prose (in Greek) and wrote a little bit on the first passage we worked on. Here is the second passage we learned from Gregory of Nyssa's Ad Simplicium. The first dealt with the Son in the economy of...
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On Making Students Memorize Prose
Why you should memorize the church fathers. In Greek.
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Meditations 2.4
What work is needful in this life before time runs out? Marcus Aurelius gives his answer in Meditations 2.4.
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Meditations 2.3
Meditations 2.3: What in the world is providence?
“He Has Given His Victory to Us”: Luther on the Resurrection and Justification
Martin Luther on the connection between Christ’s resurrection and our justification.
Luther on the Kinds of Righteousness (2)
Martin Luther on passive, i.e. Christian, righteousness.
Luther on the Kinds of Righteousness (1)
Martin Luther delineates the different kinds of righteousness, so that that Christian righteousness can come mor sharply into focus.
“The Most Difficult Thing of All”: Luther on Justification and Passive Righteousness
Martin Luther on why believing in justification by faith alone is a matter of the highest art and skill.
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Meditations 2.2
A new translation and commentary on Meditations 2.2.
Jesus the Ark: An Epigram from the Greek Anthology
A typological epigram about Jesus and the Ark of the Covenant.