A.J. Conyers Book Launch and Dinner
I was blessed to get to know A.J. "Chip" Conyers when I was a Ph.D. student at Baylor University. It is exciting to share that David Capes and Daryl Charles have edited a book of essays in honor of Chip: Thriving in Babylon: Essays in Honor of A.J. Conyers (Wipf and Stock, 2010). With a Foreword by Jurgen Moltmann, and essays by Ralph Wood, David Lyle Jeffrey, Millard Erickson, Robert Sloan, Jean Bethke Elshstain, Dan Williams and others, it promises to be a wonderful book. The book will be out in about one month. As a type of book launch, and as a way to get friends of Chip together, there will be a special "dutch treat" dinner on Saturday, November 20th, in Atlanta, Georgia (during the annual Society of Biblical Literature meeting). We are working out the details, but it looks as if it will be on Saturday evening for certain. We will have copies of the book available, and we look forward to "launching" the book. You are invited. Look for more details. If you are interested in attending, please contact me (Brad Green) at 731-431-5928, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Details: · What?: Book Launch/Dinner for Thriving in Babylon: Essays in Honor of A.J. Conyers (Wipf and Stock, 2010). · Where?: “Pittypat’s Porch” restaurant, 25 Andrew Young International Boulevard, Atlanta, Georgia 30303 (404-525-8228) This is the link to the restaurant web site: www.pittypatsrestaurant.com · When?: Saturday, November 20, at 6:00 pm. · Who?: Any and all folks who have an interest in Chip’s life and work (i.e., you do not have to have had some “special” tie to Chip to attend). Please come and enjoy and celebrate! · Why?: to celebrate the publication of this book of essays written in honor of A. J. Conyers. · What to do?: e-mail me (Brad Green), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call me, 731-431-5928 to let me know you plan on attending. · Price?: $30.00. This covers everything except gratuity.
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Nick Needham and 2000 Years of Christ's Power
I first discovered Nick Needham when I purchased his book, The Triumph of Grace, a book in which Needham collects Augustine's writings on the grace of God. It is a wonderful book. Nick was kind enough to put in a good word for a recent book I edited and published. Today I received in the mail volumes 1-3 (more to be written) of 2000 Years of Christ's Power (Grace Publications). It looks wonderful, and promises to be a substantial overview of church history. Nick is my kind of guy--an evangelical who believes that the God of Holy Scripture might just have been at work in the Christian church over the last 2000 years. You can now get all three at a great price at Wesminster Theological Seminary's online book store. Happy reading!
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C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books
C.S. Lewis' works have probably been as helpful to me as any other writings beside Scripture. The essay attached below, "On the Reading of Old Books," originally appeared as an introduction to Athanasius' On the Incarnation. Athanasius was a 4th century Christian who is credited as helping articulate a theological response to Arius, who denied the deity of Christ. Athanasius argued cogently for the deity of Christ. His short essay on the reading of old books is a minor classic itself and deserves repeated readings. Enjoy!
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The Second Book You Should Read on Constitution Day
After reading the United States Constitution, what is the next thing you should read in terms of thinking about the U.S. Constitution? My bet is on Thomas Woods' new book, Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century (Regnery, 2010). Nullification is a cherished component of american political thought, although it has been ignored for some time. In a nutshell, the idea of "nullification" is rooted (in a U.S. context) in the U.S. Constitution. The States gave certain enumerated and specified powers to the federal government. Thus--at the human level--power flows from the individual states and the people to the federal government. That is, the federal government receives its marching orders--its power--from the states. "Sovereignty"--in the political sense, and at the human level--resides in the individual states and the citizens of the various states. So what happens when the federal government usurps power, or tries to, and enacts legislation which goes beyond its enumerated and specified powers--powers granted to the federal govenment by the states? Well, the various states are duty bound to simply say, "Nice try, but you have overstepped your bounds. We simply cannot, and are morally bound not to, enforce such a law." It is not simply that the states can ignore such federal laws, the states are--ultimately--duty bound to ignore such laws, in order to protect the citizens of the states who granted and delegated such powers in the first place. But let Tom Woods walk the reader through the issues. His book contains some 125 pages of appendices with primary source documents showing the treasured place of nullification in the history of american political thought. For those who do better with a lecture, you can find a good lecture by the author, Tom Woods, here. Enjoy.
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Peter Leithart on Literal and Figurative Language
I have learned a whole lot from Peter Leithart over the years. Although Peter sees Baptists at the center of a whole bunch of theological mistakes (I am happily Baptist), I nonetheless always benefit from reading Leithart. He is one of the finest writing theologians around. In this post at his web-site Leithart succintly and simply--but nonetheless helpfully--has some fun with the unnecessary dichotomy which is often seen when people play "literal" language over against "figurative" language.
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- Published: 15 September 2010 15 September 2010
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David Lyle Jeffrey and the Current State of the Study of English Literature
To my mind, David Lyle Jeffrey is one of the finest Christian intellectuals around. He currently teaches at Baylor University. His scholarship is first-rate, and he is true Christian gentleman. I have been reading him since I first started to wrestle with questions of the nature of language, and how Christians might think rightly about the nature of language. I highly recommend his books, including People of the Book and Houses of the Interpreter. I was listening today to a lecture he gave a few years ago on the current state of the discipline of English literature, and how English as a discipline will continue to flounder as long as it continues to drift from its historical moorings, where it was anchored to the Christian faith. To any and all persons interested in the confusion in the contemporary academy, and to anyone simply interested in such issues, I would recommend this talk highly. Here is a link to Jeffrey's talk on i-tunes. It should be talk #37 on this list.
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