In early August I shall be speaking at The Providence Theological Seminary Doctrinal Conference at Front Range Alliance Church on Centennial Blvd in Colorado Springs. The presentation is entitled “The Hermeneutics of the Early Church on the Millennium.” It answers the question of whether the anti-millennial church fathers allegorized Revelation 20, as...
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For some reason the translators of the Ante-Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series overlooked many biblical commentaries of the early church. However, patristic scholars over the past few decades have started to fill this gap. A first ever English translation of Jerome’s (d. 420) Commentary on Matthew has recently been published by Catholic...
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The Seven Seals of the Apocalypse: Medieval Texts in Translation” was recently published by Medieval Institute Publications at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Designed as a supplementary text for classroom use in medieval studies programs, and part of a medieval biblical commentary series, The Seven Seals contains fifteen translations of portions of...
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Since 2004, Victor Genke and I have been translating the works of Gottschalk of Orbais, a ninth-century Benedictine monk who was imprisoned by the Church for his allegedly heretical views on predestination. Genke lives in Russia, works as an overseer of a team of translators there, and is finishing up his doctoral thesis...
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James T. Dennison, Jr. of Northwest Theological Seminary in Lynnwood, Washington is editing a three volume set whose full title is Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries in English Translation. Volume 1 appeared in 2008. It contains translations of thirty-three Reformed confessions dating from 1523 to 1552 from a variety...
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At the 2009 North American Patristics Society meeting I had the privilege of meeting David Robinson. Robinson is working on Tyconius at the University of Toronto. Tyconius wrote an Apocalypse commentary about 360, but it survives only in fragments. Tyconius also wrote a Book of Rules for interpreting Scripture. Robinson...
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