Chris Tilling’s delightful Chrisendom is the new blog of the month over at biblioblogs.com. Be sure to read the excellent interview, in which Chris talks about himself and his blog—and he even has some nice things to say about Faith and Theology!
My fellow-blogger Ken Ristau is a PhD student at Pennsylvania State University, specialising in Old Testament studies. He is a very promising young scholar—just the other day I was reading his article in the latest issue of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament—and he is also a single father with a four-year-old daughter.
Ken is requesting donations to help him attend an archaeological dig in Israel this summer as part of his PhD programme. This is a worthy cause. If you’d like to help Ken, you can donate online through PayPal.
“I believe that modern evangelicalism is hampered by being pre-critical, pre-Kantian and pre-Barthian. Helmut Thielicke refers to a Cartesian way of doing theology, in which the credibility of theology is made to rest on rational consistency and clarity of ideas rather than fidelity to biblical revelation.”
—Donald Bloesch, “Donald Bloesch Responds,” in Evangelical Theology in Transition: Theologians in Dialogue with Donald Bloesch
Kim Fabricius’ list of Essential Paintings for Theologians was more popular than anything else ever posted at Faith and Theology. His list has been viewed thousands of times, and it generated discussion on many other blogs.
Partly in response to all this discussion, Kim has now added a supplement to his list. So here are ten more essential paintings (and stay tuned soon for a list of Essential Icons as well):
1. Giovanni Cimabue (c.1240-1302): “Crucifix”
2. Fra Angelico (c.1400-55): “Transfiguration”
3. Andrea Mantegna (c.1431-1506): “Dead Christ”
4. El Greco (1541-1614): “Christ's Agony in the Garden”
5. Jan Vermeer (1632-75): “Woman Holding a Balance”
6. Georges Rouault (1871-1958): “Head of Christ”
7. Marc Chagall (1887-1985): “White Crucifixion”
8. Max Ernst (1891-1970): “Virgin Spanking the Christ Child before Three Witnesses”
9. Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990): “Christ on the Breadline”
10. Roger Wagner (1957- ): “Menorah”
Over at Codex, Tyler Williams will today be posting the second Biblical Studies Carnival. This is sure to include many excellent biblical studies posts—so head over there soon for a look.
And Lyn Perry has organised the Best So Far Blogging Awards, including a category for Best Religious Blogs. You can send in your votes by emailing Lyn (I have just sent in my own vote for Chrisendom).
“There is the Church. Somehow I don’t think he [Stanley] is fitted for it. He hasn’t heard the call, so to speak.... He did show some interest in the subject of the revision of the prayer-book. His suggestion was to insert crossword puzzles on alternate pages with blank leaves interspersed here and there for sketches and notes to be passed along to fellow sufferers during the sermon.”
—Lennie Lower, Here’s Luck (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1930), ch. 1.
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