What should a preacher do when the lector reads the wrong text?
Translations
“Those Words Are Pure Heavenly Thunder”: Luther on Attending to Every Word
Martin Luther, Galatians 1:4, and the importance of reading slowly.
“You Can Go Home Again”: The End of Confessions 4
Augustine on going home by finding our selves outside our selves in God inside ourselves.
“Uncanny King, Perplexing Priest”: An Epigram from the Greek Anthology
A poetic paraphrase of Greek Anthology 1.66, on Melchizedek and Jesus.
“The Catechesis of the Sign”: An Epigram from the Greek Anthology
A poem on reading Genesis 22 under the Spirit’s tutelage.
On Making Students Memorize Prose (Again)
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...
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.