Anthony Esolen, recent translator of Dante’s Inferno and contributing editor of Touchstone has delivered on a promise to write “a little bit about the linguistic controversy surrounding NT Greek anthropos, which is now translated as ‘person’ or ‘one’ or ‘human being’ or ‘[null]’ or ‘fellow’ or ‘telephone pole,’ but never simply ‘man,’ lest somebody in the pews [...]
Entries from January 2007
January 14, 2007
May a Woman Be a Pastor?
Dr. Harold Hoehner, distinguished professor of New Testament studies at Dallas Theological Seminary created a kerfluffle in some quarters with a paper he delivered at the November 2006 meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. I have not seen the paper, but Dr. James Hamilton, assistant professor of Biblical Studies at the Houston campus of Southwestern [...]
January 10, 2007
Tempus fugit
Reading is much easier than writing. So, during the holidays, I’ve read more blogs than I’ve written. And, reading others’ blogs shows me that their authors, too, have probably been occupied with things other than writing.
No matter what I’ve been reading (or where), time has been moving at a rapid pace since my last blog. I [...]
