NEW ARTICLES: Under the sidebar “Published Articles by the Author” are two new articles. The first is “I Will Show Wonders in the Heaven Above” published in Trinity Journal. It examines the eschatology of an eighteenth century Baptist community in Pennsylvania, called Ephrata, and how they viewed certain comets, which had appeared at that time, as signals of end time events…. Read more →
Victor Genke and I have been translating into English the Latin writings of Gottschalk of Orbais, a ninth-century monk whose teachings on divine predestination started a major controversy in the Carolingian church. Gottschalk & A Medieval Predestination Controversy: Texts Translated from the Latin is now available. From the Back Cover: “The question of predestination and its nature, which drew strong… Read more →
What a wonderful addition to patristic scholarship to have T.C. Schmidt’s translation of Hippolytus’ Commentary on Daniel. The commentary is divided into four books. Book Four contains Hippolytus’ interpretations of Daniel 7-12, and the 59 chapters therein interested me most. In this blog, I will elaborate on some of his expositions. 1. In 4.14.3 Hippolytus speaks of “when the Judge… Read more →