The New School of Theology

I think I want to teach here. Shame it doesn’t exist.
Yet.

Pretending to be a biblioblog

There has been lots of hoo-ha recently in the biblioblog world (I was trying to type biblioblogosphere but my fingers just wouldn’t let me use such an awful word) about the lack of women who blog biblical studies. Some people have compiled lists of female bibliobloggers, some of which include me.
Um, okay. On [...]

Biblioblogs

Anyone who’s anyone in the world of blogging and biblical studies appears on the Complete List of Biblioblogs. My blog, as you may have noticed, is not really dedicated to biblical studies, though there are occasional posts which would fit into that category. I am pleased to note, however, that Conversational Theology has [...]

The PhD student’s nightmare

Among other things, the PhD student lives in dread of discovering, too late in the day, that someone else has already written their thesis. This service should help to alleviate that. It’s an international register of dissertations in progress. You can search to see who’s working on subjects related to yours and [...]

Trying this on for size

At the moment I am working on the section of my thesis which tries to explain what a canonical approach to interpretation actually is. This is a harder question than I first thought. Here’s a summary of my thinking so far:
1. The canon is a cohesive, ordered collection of texts.
2. Choosing to read [...]

All Change

At coffee today, Peter Head jokingly suggested that I may be something of a jinx for theological institutions. He didn’t look too nervous about it but it’s true that in the last year, there have been a significant number of staff changes at places with which I have strong links. The most recent [...]

Good news, I think

I am in Scotland and there is a rainbow. This is a good thing since it reminds me that God’s love is faithful and sure.
This morning I had an email to say that my paper proposal for this year’s SBL conference in November has been accepted. I was very excited to hear this. [...]

Ecclesia Reformanda

Today’s most exciting news is the launch of this new journal of British Reformed theology.
Ecclesia Reformanda is an exciting new journal for pastors, theological students, and scholars, that seeks to serve the Church in its ongoing reformation according to God’s Word. The journal is distinctively Reformed, with a contemporary cutting edge. It presents [...]

It’s never too late…

…to celebrate International Septuagint Day! Though I should point out that, technically, this was last week. But still, what’s a week or two in the context of more than 2,000 years or so since the Septuagint was produced?
Here’s an excellent post explaining why the LXX is such an important text for all biblical [...]

More magic from Vanhoozer

It is tempting to reduce the communicative act to its propositional content alone. Yet such an identification of divine discourse with propositional content is too hasty and reductionist, for it omits two other important aspects of the communicative action, namely, the illocutionary (what is done) and perlocutionary (what is effected). To repeat: what [...]