OT: Intriguing article on digital Bibles

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  • Bill Coley
    Bill Coley Member Posts: 214 ✭✭

    it seems to me we have far better things to occupy our time than line drawing.

    “He drew a circle that shut me out-
    Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.
    But love and I had the wit to win:
    We drew a circle and took him In !

    From the poem " Outwitted”


    ― Edwin Markham

    -Dan

    [Y]

  • Dan Francis
    Dan Francis Member Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭

    This is why I wish Logos made a super simple base collection that was $50,

    Catechism of the Catholic Church Collection

    While a pretty small collection and aimed primarily at RCC this is more or less what I was asking for so good for Logos, and if a person adds in FaithLife resources one could have a pretty nice starting package. So Good for Logos.

    -Dan

  • David Ames
    David Ames Member Posts: 2,977 ✭✭✭

    While a pretty small collection and aimed primarily at RCC this is more or less what I was asking for so good for Logos, and if a person adds in FaithLife resources one could have a pretty nice starting package. So Good for Logos.

    Only major problem with that collection is that it has the  Richard Challoner's revision of the Douay-Rheims Bible instead of the original version [1585 / 1609/10]

    Now if all the other 'special interest groups' will also release $50 collections that allow the full study of and understanding of the group. [Y]

  • NB.Mick
    NB.Mick MVP Posts: 16,126

    Sleiman said:

    Butters said:

    Incidentally, papal infallibility is one of the most deeply misunderstood of the Church's teachings.  Not appropriate to elaborate upon here, I suppose...but there are plenty of places to read about it elsewhere.  I'd be glad to post up something if it's allowed.  

    ~Butters Smile

    Yeah, I avoided that word--infallibility--on purpose. As you and MJ have indicated, there's some deeper stuff involved that we don't need to get into here. If you want to post a link to something, I'd be happy to peruse, but I don't want anyone killing themselves writing a dissertation. 

    Maybe hints to resources or suggested resources would help educate us to this situation? 

    Not a comprehensive list, but a sample of my search results....

    Sleiman.

    To not get this buried in a long OT-Thread, I tried to put your sample results into a Reading List, somewhat enhanced by what I found and what we typically see in suchg lists. Feel free to add further stuff and correct any blunders I may have made.

    Have joy in the Lord! Smile

  • Bruce Dunning
    Bruce Dunning MVP Posts: 11,148

    NB.Mick said:

    To not get this buried in a long OT-Thread, I tried to put your sample results into a Reading List,

    Thanks.

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  • Sleiman
    Sleiman Member Posts: 672 ✭✭

    NB.Mick said:

    To not get this buried in a long OT-Thread, I tried to put your sample results into a Reading List, somewhat enhanced by what I found and what we typically see in suchg lists. Feel free to add further stuff and correct any blunders I may have made.

    Thank you NB, much appreciated.
  • NB.Mick
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  • Mike Childs
    Mike Childs Member Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭

    It should be a crime for a seminary to give an M.Div degree without requiring Greek and Hebrew, and not just the basic courses, but Greek and Hebrew exegesis courses as well.

    If you went to Asbury in the 1970's, you took 6 hours of Greek that you could not count toward your M.Div. because you were supposed to know basic Greek grammar before you started.  Now even Asbury has wimped out and lets them count those 6 hours of Greek as an elective toward their degree.  I am most disappointed in them.  Heretics!

    That seems to be the trend these days in many schools. I think this may also be driven by economics.

    No, it's driven by the inclusion of many "practical" courses which crowd out the meat of the curriculum.  When I went to cemetery ALL those admitted had been Greek majors in college.  We then had three more years of Greek pounded into our thick skulls full of mush by Dr. Bastiaan Van Elderen (When he wasn't talking about archaeology).   Unfortunately, the Old Testament department wasn't so insistent on knowing the language well (which is why I went on to graduate school in OT).  At the end of our captivity we had to take proficiency exams in both languages as well as an oral on general theological topics.

    George, you are so right.  The lack of a traditional theological education in most seminaries, especially requiring Biblical languages, is driven by so called "practical" courses crowding out the meat of the curriculum.  I once heard a frustrated New Testament scholar, Dr. Joseph Wang, address his fellow faculty members, "We in the Impractical Ministries Department want to say..." 


    "In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church," John Wesley

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 54,480

    When I went to cemetery ALL those admitted had been Greek majors in college. 

    And here I thought you overlapped the Domincans 1203-present ... when you say you're almost 39 you mean centuries??

    Translation: Dominican "cemeteries" expect their students to have been philosophy majors. Hummmm .. Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican ... is that a coincidence?

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."