The Scriptorium Daily

Year: 2012

  • Owl Land

    Owl Land

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    Fred Sanders
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    C.S. Lewis once wrote a poem with the title Impenitence. What did he refuse to repent of? Man-like beasts. Anthropomorphic animals, especially the homey civilized ones from Beatrix Potter and Kenneth Grahame. Here are the first two stanzas of his poem: All the world’s wiseacres in arms against them Shan’t detach my heart for a…

  • Newman, Benedict, and Torrey

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    Fred Sanders
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    Over at the blog of the American Society of Church History, Torrey’s Dr. Greg Peters reflects on some lesser-known writings of John Henry Newman. Newman’s most famous book about learning was his Idea of a University, but he also explored the ideals of Benedictine monasticism as a model for meaningful education. Peters reports on some…

  • In Defense of Cinderella: The Dress

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    Diane Vincent
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    I have a near-three-year-old girl who lives within a mile of both sets of grandparents. This means that some aspect of the Disney princess world will infiltrate our lives (yes, ours, not just hers) with or without my consent. The first foray involved mysterious new references to “Cinderella”, as in “Mommy, is this Cinderella music?”…

  • The Trinity in Gender Debates

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    Fred Sanders
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    Trinity and Gender Roles: A Nice and Hot Dispute The evangelical debate about gender roles may seem like an unlikely venue for hashing out trinitarian theology, but that is what has been going on in the last few years. Everybody knows that evangelical complementarians and evangelical egalitarians have competing views of the relationship between men…

  • Reflections on the History of Torrey—Ep. 3

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    John Mark Reynolds
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    The final installment! As one chapter in the history of the Torrey Honors Institute closes and another opens, some of the minds responsible for its birth reflect on the development of the program. Join Dr. John Mark Reynolds, Dr. Paul Spears, and Dr. Fred Sanders as they discuss the origins and future of the Torrey…

  • Not Forsaken: McCall Responds

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    Fred Sanders
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    For the past week and a half, Fred Sanders and Matt Jenson have been discussing Thomas H. McCall’s new book Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it Matters. See parts 1, 2, 3, & 4 if you missed our little cartoon theology-heads talking back and forth about this commendable book. As our discussion…

  • General Honors 1920 and Torrey Honors 2012

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    Joe Henderson
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    In the Torrey Honors Institute we read Western classics; then we sit in a circle and talk about them. This peculiar form of education (and the list of classic books) can be traced back to the General Honors course offered at Colombia University beginning in the fall semester of 1920. It’s remarkable how many of…

  • Does It Make a Difference? (Forsaken pt. 4)

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    Matt Jenson
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    See the other essays in this four-part series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. In our final installment talking through Tom McCall’s Forsaken, we consider McCall’s fourth chapter and conclusion, in which he takes two looks at the question of “why it matters”. Jenson: Continuing on from the last post, where Fred pointed out…

  • Progress for the Sake of…

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    Janelle Aijian
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    As I was driving around LA the other day listening to NPR, two stories run back-to-back caught my attention. The first was a story about the recent Nobel-prize winners John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, who have uncovered a means for turning any cell into a stem cell from which an organ or even a…

  • Victory, not Tragedy (Forsaken pt 3)

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    Fred Sanders
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    See the other essays in this four-part series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Further reflections on Tom McCall’s Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it Matters, as Sanders and Jenson do a conversational review-but-not-a-review type blog thing. Our offices are right down the hall from each other, so you’d think…

  • Wrath of the Trinity (Forsaken pt. 2)

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    Fred Sanders
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    See the other essays in this four-part series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. More discussion of Tom McCall’s book Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it Matters, from Fred Sanders and Matt Jenson of Biola’s Torrey Honors Institute. In his second chapter, McCall considers the question, “Did the death of…

  • The Broken Trinity (Forsaken pt. 1)

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    Fred Sanders
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    See the other essays in this four-part series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Tom McCall’s recent Forsaken:  The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it Matters (IVP, 2012—thanks to IVP for a copy!) is a very stimulating little book. Its four short chapters (just 165 pages total) are a series of focused…