I am a Palestinian, I know the history, I am not a knee-jerk Israel supporter in all things, but this requires no special caveats or asterisks. This is evil. There is no liberation that comes from this that justifies it, only judgment.
Stacking up the books & revising the syllabus for my annual grad-level class on the Trinity next fall: Nazianzus, Augustine (De Trin + sermons on John), Aquinas, Owen, & Mastricht, plus some pdfs not shown (Tertullian, Warfield, John of Damascus, etc).
What does the Spring semester look like for our MA in Classical Theology: Fred Sanders on Ephesians, Greg Peters on Aquinas, and Ryan Peterson, Adam Johnson, and surprise co-prof Oliver Crisp on Christology. Lots happening: https://t.co/6damULU7YZ
SO EXCITED to teach my 1st actual Bible class in our M.A. in Classical Theology program. (Get ready for 5 months of Ephesians content on this Twitter feed.) Just uploaded pdfs of readings: Chrysostom, Aquinas, Calvin, Goodwin, Bayne, Gurnall, Andrewes, Pope, and more. MORE!
@kennyclark "...more clearly understood, and more earnestly propounded, with a view to defending them against heretical attack. Thus an argument aroused by an adversary turns out to be an opportunity for instruction.” (Augustine, City of God 16.2)
@kennyclark Augustine: “The effect of their activities is to assist the progress of the faithful… For we can see that many matters of importance to the Catholic faith are debated by the feverish restlessness of heretics, and the result is that they are more carefully examined,...