The Scriptorium Daily

Year: 2010

  • Saints Sergius and Bacchus, Martyrs

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    Fred Sanders
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    Today is the feast day of Sergius and Bacchus. When it comes to saints, I try not to underbelieve or overbelieve. And it’s a hard balance, sometimes. What do you with the story of Saint Sophia and her three daughters Faith, Hope, and Love? It’s entirely possible that these four women, supposedly martyrs in the…

  • Gospel-Driven, Rightly Dividing, and Buzzard

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    Fred Sanders
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    Three more reviews of The Deep Things of God in recent days that are worth pointing out: Pastor Mark Lauterbach at GospelDrivenLife is starting a series of posts, blogging about the Trinity and the gospel in dialogue with the book. He calls my work “utterly unoriginal.” How dare he! Oh wait, that’s a compliment. Okay,…

  • Happy Birthday, Jonathan Edwards!

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    Fred Sanders
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    Today (October 5) is the birthday of America’s greatest theologian, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). Here are some major events from Edwards’ life, as chronicled here at Scriptorium in the last few years. Before 1723: He wrote a treatise on spiders: “Of all Insects no one is more wonderful than the Spider especially with Respect to their…

  • Happy Birthday Homer Rodeheaver

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    Fred Sanders
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    Homer Rodeheaver (1880-1955) was born today, October 4. He started out as the songleader for William Biederwolf, but rose to fame when he accompanied Billy Sunday on preaching tours. The role of song-leader for a big-name evangelist was well-defined by the time “Rodie” stepped into it: Moody had his Sankey, Torrey had his Charles Alexander,…

  • Robert Barclay

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    Fred Sanders
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    If you want a theological introduction and orientation to the Quaker tradition, then Robert Barclay (1648 – 1690) is your man. Barclay (who died on this day, October 3) was born in Scotland, educated in Paris, and governed a colony in America before returning to his native Aberdeenshire. When he opted for Quakerism in 1667,…

  • Allen Chatfield Translates Some Really Old Hymns

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    Fred Sanders
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    Slow day for church history? Yes indeed. The most interesting thing I could find that happened on October 2 is the birth of Allen W. Chatfield (1808-1896), the 19th-century Anglican vicar and translator of Greek hymns. Chatfield studied classics at Cambridge and then got ordained, so he was the man for the job of bringing…

  • Marburg Colloquy

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    Fred Sanders
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    Today (October 1) was the first day of the Marburg Colloquy, a 1529 conference that attempted to bring together two streams of the brand-new Protestant movement. On one side were the Germans, led by Luther and his right-hand man Melanchthon, and on the other side were the Swiss, led by Zwingli and supported by others…

  • Jerome

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    Fred Sanders
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    For St. Jerome (347-420). His full name was Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus, and he died on this day (September 30); A bit of jangly rhyming from Phyllis McGinley’s Saint-Watching: God’s angry man, His crotchety scholar, Was Saint Jerome, The great name-caller, Who cared not a dime For the laws of libel And in his spare time…

  • Psalmtooning 2: Serve With Fear

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    Fred Sanders
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    Phoebe Age Seven draws her way through the second Psalm. In her earlier psalmtoon work, she showed a strong commitment to unifying the entire page composition. In the second Psalm, for whatever reason, she has apparently abandoned the quest for a unified composition in favor of a looser assemblage of images. The page’s only unity…

  • The Birth of Servetus

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    Fred Sanders
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    Today (September 29) is the birthday of Miguel Servet, better known as Michael Servetus (1511-1553), the Spanish theologian who forcefully denied the Trinity, and died for those convictions. Discussions of the execution of Servetus are easy enough to find, usually in connection with John Calvin’s involvement in the process. But on his birthday, let us…

  • The Trinitarian Theology of Keith Green

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    Fred Sanders
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    Trinitarian theology is a great and lofty thing; it’s for trained theologians to do very serious work with. But it is also something that is near to every Christian, even in their mouths. An ordinary believer who has grasped the main outline of the gospel is probably operating with a functional trinitarian theology that is,…

  • Tonight: You Can Understand the Trinity

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    Fred Sanders
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    For readers in southern California (if you can stand the heat! 113 degrees in late September!), come on by the book release event for The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything. Two hours of Trinitarian theology from me and my Biola colleagues Erik Thoennes, Melissa Schubert, and Rob Price. A surreal experience…