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New Book on Gospels by Kym Smith: A Great Read

By Frank

Every year I read a book or two that is so good that I can’t put it down. I look forward to the next chapter, and I’m sad when it’s over. The Synoptic Problem: A Johannine Solution by Kym Smith (Blackwood, South Australia: Sherwood Publications, 2007) was one of them. Smith...
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The Tractoria of Prudentius of Troyes (d. 861)

By Frank

Prudentius of Troyes was one of the bishops in attendance at the Council of Quierzy in 849, which defrocked Gottschalk of Orbais, beat him almost to death, and made him throw his writings into a fire. He also assented to the canons of a council in the mid-850s which was directed against the...
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Julian of Toledo on the World to Come

By Frank

I am elated about the forthcoming translation of Julian of Toledo’s Prognosticum Futuri Saeculi (Foreknowledge of the World to Come) by Tommaso Stancati. Julian of Toledo (d. 690), a seventh-century Spanish bishop, was the first theologian to compile a systematic treatise on Christian eschatology. Drawing upon the wisdom of the fathers,...
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