Rarely does an anthology of original documents of historical value mingled with insightful interpretative essays come together as a coherent work. Steven Palmer and Iván Molina, against those odds, have put the ball in the back of the net with just such a book.
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tiquicia and how it got that way: Steven Palmer and Iván Molina (eds), The Costa Rica Reader. History, culture, politics
Posted in denkschrift, reseña, two hippos make an island, tagged Costa Rica, Latin America, travel on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
D.Min. or PhD.: that is the question …
Posted in clarity, denkschrift, tagged theological education on September 4, 2008 | 17 Comments »
In the last two decades, the wily old PhD has been challenged by a feisty upstart, the Doctor of Ministry. High-achieving individuals dedicated to some field of theology, biblical studies, or pastoral ministry often hop back and forth between the two, wondering which better fits their needs and life situation. First, some terminology. Let’s begin [...]
Who should (and should not) pursue a PhD in theology or biblical studies
Posted in clarity, denkschrift, tagged theological education on May 23, 2008 | 51 Comments »
As the owner of a doctorate in biblical studies, I am regularly asked by one aspiring doctoral student or another whether I think he or she should walk the same path. Nearly always, I am taken aback by the vigor and ambition of such people. In my own life, the studies that led up to [...]
Mr. Physicist, meet Mr. Novelist … : Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams
Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged Alan Lightman on May 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rarely does a Cal Tech-trained physicist become an accomplished contributor to literary magazines like the incomparable Atlantic Monthly. Even rarer still, this one tosses off a thin little collection of whimsical reflections on the world’s most famous theoretical physicist in early last-century Bern and it becomes a best seller. As it should.
a hope worth strengthening: Ian McCallum, Ecological Intelligence. Rediscovering ourselves in nature
Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged creation, Ian McCallum, reseña, stewardship on April 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Ian McCallum worries about the human species. He worries broadly, deeply, poetically, mystically, entertainingly, passionately, and challengingly. We are deeply diseased, McCallum believes, and we are inflicting our plague on the earth we inherit as the evolutionarily privileged human animal. In Ecological Intelligence, McCallum tells us that healing—as opposed to quick-fix mending–will occur only as [...]
The alien among us: the company our ethics keep (Deuteronomy 26-27)
Posted in denkschrift, textures, tagged biblical reflection, Deuteronomy, textures on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You can tell a lot about a person from the company he keeps. The same is true of ethical prescriptions, especially when they occur in a list like the one in Deuteronomy 27. Each item of the list is followed by the people’s ‘Amen!’, pronounced upon a curse that in turn has been declared over [...]
a letter to my sons on my birthday from the Flight 93 Memorial Site, Shanksville, Pennsylvania
Posted in denkschrift, paterfamilias, tagged Pennsylvania on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Christopher and Johnny, These Pennsylvania mountains mean nothing to you. How could they? You’ve grown up in places we Pennsylvanians consider much more exotic, though they seem perfectly natural to you. Places like Costa Rica and England. Still, this Pennsylvania landscape that continues to evoke feelings of home in me on my infrequent visits [...]
warming trend: George Landes, Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary. Learning Words by Frequency and Cognate (Resources for Biblical Study)
Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged Aramaic, George Landes, reseña on December 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s hard to establish where exactly we are these days with regard to learning the biblical languages. On the hand poisonous trends like the cult of relevancy afflict our university and seminary curricula, reducing them to what someone considers ‘practical’ with no attention to historical depth, the damning pace of change, and epistemological humility. More [...]
rum pum pum pum …
Posted in denkschrift, my hometown, paterfamilias, tagged Christmas on December 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
2007 has been an exhausting, occasionally degrading year. This Christmas morning, following upon the heels of one of my middle-sized life’s sweetest worship experiences last evening as a guest at Indianapolis’ East 91st Street Christian Church, breathes comfortably in the pleasant bosom of family and God’s tenderness. But oh, what a year! From my morning’s [...]
por invitación: hacia una teología en la práctica // towards a practiced theology
Posted in denkschrift, tagged theological education on November 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Tiempos atrás, la vida me otorgó la satisfacción de compartir aulas y espacios pastorales con un amigo y colega costarricense quien no ha flaqueado en mantener los lazos de la amistad desde mi emigración hacia la patria en 2004. Recientemente el mencionado Alexander Cabezas, ahora miembro imprescindible del equipo de Viva Juntos por la Niñez [...]
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