OT: Free from Regent Audio; lectures by Eugene Peterson and Iwan Russell-Jones
Free download (3hrs total) from Regent Audio (a ministry of Regent College and the Regent Bookstore):
It includes lectures by Eugene Peterson on "Why Theological Education Matters" and Iwan Russell-Jones on "Shall These Bones Live? The Ash Wednesday Promise of Art" as part of the installation of Iwan in the newly named Eugene and Jan Peterson Chair in Theology and the Arts at Regent College.
Iwan is an exciting up-and-coming voice in theological education, and I expect we'll be seeing more from him. He's a Welshman who used to work for the BBC making documentaries. He's teaching a 2-week course this summer in Vancouver called "Jesus in Celluloid" on how Jesus has been depicted in film and how various portrayals converse with Scripture and Christian thought through the centuries. I highly recommend it. I took his film class "Believing in Documentary" last summer and it was awesome. And Vancouver is a great city to spend a summer vacation in.
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[Y][Y]Thanks Rosie!!! Now Listening 4325A "Why Theological Education?" And others . . .. . .later.
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Rosie Perera said:
It includes lectures by Eugene Peterson on "Why Theological Education Matters" and Iwan Russell-Jones on "Shall These Bones Live?
Thanks Rosie!
Regards, SteveF
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Rosie: Thank you so much.
I hope Eugene Peterson's five volume series on Spiritual Theology will be published on Logos. One of the key lesson I learned is that the Bible should be savored like a delicious meal. Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.
Regent College has so many great authors: R Paul Stevens' book "The Other Six Days" is another classic that I hope will be in Logos. Gordon Fee taught there: his last class before retirement was on the Book of Revelation, and it was a very touching class. Even though he knows the New Testament inside out, the Holy Spirit still moves him to tears as he exegetes a passage and God grabs him with his Words. Through Dr. Fee, I learned that exegesis is not a pure intellectual exercise. And Bruce Waltke taught OT there. Rikki Watts' audio lectures on Isaiah and the use of OT in NT are extremely insightful. Both J.I. Packer and NT Wright taught there. Talking about diversity of theological perspectives!
I hear that Regent emphasizes spiritual formation while many famous schools tunnel themselves into academic trivia. I wish I could quit my job and get spiritually refreshed. Rosie, I wish I had your opportunity.
I hope Logos can include more and more authors from Regent College.
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Paul Lee said:
I hope Eugene Peterson's five volume series on Spiritual Theology will be published on Logos. One of the key lesson I learned is that the Bible should be savored like a delicious meal. Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.
Yes, I hope so too! I have the whole series in print format but would love to read it on my digital device. I rarely read print books anymore. They feel so cumbersome to me. I'd also love to see his memoir The Pastor, and all his other books.
Paul Lee said:
Regent College has so many great authors: R Paul Stevens' book "The Other Six Days" is another classic that I hope will be in Logos.
Yes, that is a good one.
Paul Lee said:Gordon Fee taught there: his last class before retirement was on the Book of Revelation, and it was a very touching class. Even though he knows the New Testament inside out, the Holy Spirit still moves him to tears as he exegetes a passage and God grabs him with his Words. Through Dr. Fee, I learned that exegesis is not a pure intellectual exercise.
I had the privilege of taking that Revelation class when he taught it a few years before he retired. Fortunately a number of Fee's works are available in Logos, but I'm still hoping for Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God (available in Spanish translation but not in English, bizarrely), Listening to the Spirit in the Text, New Testament Exegesis, and The Disease of the Health and Wealth Gospels.
Paul Lee said:And Bruce Waltke taught OT there.
I had the incredible blessing of not only taking courses from Waltke but also being his TA for one semester for his Old Testament Theology course, out of which came his book An Old Testament Theology, which Logos does carry. One of the best books on OT theology I've ever read. Fortunately a number of Waltke's other works are also available in Logos, but I'd still like to see his Finding the Will of God: A Pagan Notion?, The Dance Between God and Humanity: Reading the Bible Today as the People of God, and The Psalms as Christian Lament: A Historical Commentary (co-written by him and James Houston [another wonderful Regent professor] and Erika Moore)
Paul Lee said:Rikki Watts' audio lectures on Isaiah and the use of OT in NT are extremely insightful.
Yes, he's another gem. Logos should publish his Isaiah's New Exodus in Mark, even though it's highly technical (comes out of his PhD dissertation). It is groundbreaking work. His audio courses are more accessible though.
Paul Lee said:Both J.I. Packer and NT Wright taught there. Talking about diversity of theological perspectives!
Indeed, that has been one of the hallmarks of Regent throughout its history. I remember attending one panel discussion between J.I. Packer, Bruce Waltke, Gordon Fee, and Eugene Peterson, on the subject of women's ordination and leadership in the church. Packer and Waltke were on the traditional side of the issue, and Fee and Peterson, coming from a Pentecostal background and having had a mother who was a preacher respectively, were on the egalitarian side. And yet it was the most charitable and enlightening "debate" I've ever heard. These colleagues clearly loved each other in spite of their differences, and all held their positions firmly but with humility, willing to accept that in the future they might turn out to have been misguided, caring more about their fellowship in the Lord than being "right" on this or that issue.
Paul Lee said:I hear that Regent emphasizes spiritual formation while many famous schools tunnel themselves into academic trivia. I wish I could quit my job and get spiritually refreshed. Rosie, I wish I had your opportunity.
Yes, that is also something it is known for. I wish you could take some time out from your job and get spiritually refreshed, even if it's only for a week or two vacation during summer school. But in the meantime, I'm glad you are taking advantage of the audio courses.
Paul Lee said:I hope Logos can include more and more authors from Regent College.
Me too. At one point I started a list of all the Regent authors' works and short writings that are available in Logos. I posted it here.
http://community.logos.com/forums/p/46452/350760.aspx#350760
I had done another update of it with a lot more additions but my computer crashed and I lost all that work. Maybe someday I'll get around to doing it again. Anyway, it's hard to stay completely up-to-date with anything like that, as Logos is always coming out with new works in pre-pub, and I've noticed some new ones by Regent authors coming down the pike.
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Paul Lee said:
... many famous schools tunnel themselves into academic trivia.
Lord, please deliver Your people from the influence of and the temptation to lose the consuming fire in the cold ashes of trivialized, thoroughly analyzed, marginalized academia. Shatter our stony hearts! Amen
"I read dead people..."
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Thank you Brother Mark for your prayer.
You will be glad to know that Gordon Fee holds a bible study in his living every month for seminary students and church planters in NYC. Over coffee and breakfast, he would dive into Paul's letter, one small morsel at a time. At first I thought these studies were going to be textual criticism of Greek genitives and their variants. Instead, Dr. Fee would tell us how God would speak to him through the passages and exegetes them theologically in the modern New York City context. He would start from the ancient text and we would end in discussions of contemporary issues facing the church. He is old now, but when he talks I see bright light shining from his face.
He is particularly excited by the upcoming new edition of his NICNT 1st Corinthian commentary. I hope I will see this in print soon.
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Paul Lee said:
You will be glad to know that Gordon Fee holds a bible study in his living every month for seminary students and church planters in NYC. Over coffee and breakfast, he would dive into Paul's letter, one small morsel at a time. At first I thought these studies were going to be textual criticism of Greek genitives and their variants. Instead, Dr. Fee would tell us how God would speak to him through the passages and exegetes them theologically in the modern New York City context. He would start from the ancient text and we would end in discussions of contemporary issues facing the church. He is old now, but when he talks I see bright light shining from his face.
Paul, I am so glad to hear this update on my dear friend Gordon. I saw him for lunch in NYC a couple of years ago and I knew he was already beginning a slow decline, and I've seen him out in BC once since when he was here visiting. I hope the Lord maintains that wonderful bright shining light in his face and the ability to exegete the Scriptures for students and church planters and others for years to come. He is truly a treasure!
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Paul Lee said:
And Bruce Waltke taught OT there.
Incidentally, Waltke's excellent commentary on Micah is in pre-pub right now in the Eerdmans Commentary Collection, which also includes Brueggemann's commentary on Jeremiah, and Dale Bruner's 2-volume commentary on Matthew, among others. It's almost there! Looking forward to this, as well as the rest of the Eerdmans Bible Reference Bundle.
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Thank you so much Rosie!
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I pre-ordered the set awhile ago: I am most excited by Seow's commentary on the book of Job. I hope he can shine light on the mystery of Elihu and solve the questions of suffering once and for all.
I am not a big fan of Brueggemann: his OT theology is too challenging. He needs to learn from Job that we will never understand why God does not act the way we want. As Karl Barth wrote in Church Dogmatics: "God is known only by God... But we also do not know Him without making use of His permission and obeying His command to undertake this attempt. The success of this undertaking, and therefore the veracity of our human knowledge of God, consists in the fact that our viewing and conceiving is adopted and determined to participation in the truth of God by God Himself in grace."
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