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A sweeping generalization. Details matter. The expression "the same thing" isn't particularly useful. It is easy to point out similar themes. Both epistles provide exalted christology. It makes sense to study them together, detailed professional exegesis will uncover contrasts and ambiguity...

"... very much a kind of sola fide teaching of Martin Luther.” Is he serious? Only someone coming from an alien framework (theological universe) could make such a claim. I am not following developments in the RCC. Martin Luther I have some familiarity with but not a lot. Sola Scriptura and the...

During the same time frame, I kept getting a bad certificate error page with every browser but the problem disappeared within 36 hrs with no intervention on my part.

Almost 30 years ago I was having a conversation with Robert Case one of the small army of associated pastors at a mega church that was meeting in Lincoln high school, just north of Gasworks Park in Seattle, when he made a similar comment. Not exactly the same words but something that indicted...

Believe it or not I was doing some research on Rod Stirling yesterday. I think the current cultural situation is something Rod Stirling would have appreciated. The cryptic narrative about Wednesday night meetings reflects fall out from the recently revised lockdown guidelines. People are...

I have been watching as a group of people meet every Wednesday night in a home. I notice them because they all drive huge SUVs and use up all the street parking in a very small space where people park to take walks down to the beach. I don't know why they meet or why on Wednesday evening. I...

Well it isn't something we want to discuss here but using an unlocked site isn't a good idea. BRAVE imposed encryption on first access to the site but one you click on the English translation box and click OK you get a warning that you are now about to enter an unencrypted world...

Thank you. I found a more assessable[1] source here although it is on an insecure site which I have had zero problems with over the weekend. I have started a new thread for asking questions about the third letter to Nestorius. [1] Something I can read with my old eyes.

The Twelve Anathamas of Cyril (against Nestorius) in Greek and English. I. If any one refuses to confess that the Emmanuel is in truth God, and therefore that the holy Virgin is Mother of God (θεοτόκος), for she gave birth after a fleshly manner to the Word of God made flesh; let him be...

I am wondering if the 12 anathamas constitute a TEXT so that any one of them should be read in light of the rest of them. I have tenatively concluded that this is the way to read them since unpacking anathama <ζ> seems to require understanding the previous anathamas. Also should the 12...

That helps. I was just looking at explanations of the anathamas and wondering who wrote the explanations. The document Concilium universale Ephesenum anno 431 isn't particularly transparent unless you know the territory which I don't.

As I was doing some reading in Theodoret of Cyrus it was inevitable that I became once again embroiled in the controversy between Cyril of Alexandria and Nestorius. Finding all the primary sources in the original languages turned out to be a big project. Just tracking down the twelve anathamas...

I haven't read much of Luther other than Bondage of the Will. I wonder if Luther was really so dense that he didn't understand the issues we are discussing. He is often quoted using strong statements about biblical authority in his polemic responses to Erasmus. It is dangerous to use samples...

Not only that, but hermeneutics and philosophical presuppositions play a huge role In determining how a text is understood. In the late 70s when orthodox Protestants were actively discussing "Biblical Inerrancy" there was a whole separate volume published on Hermeneutics and Canon. One author...

Thirty years ago I used to occasionally listen to the WhiteHorse Inn podcast. It filled a void. The participants were from different flavors of reformed traditions. Sola Scripture was referenced frequently. All of the participants were longterm students of dogma.and cited from extra biblical...

I think you are misunderstanding where Metzger and others are going with this. It isn't about the fundamentalist modernist controversy. It is a different issue from late dating the authorship of Daniel.

May I suggest that you look at Bruce Metzger's introduction to "2 Esdras" particularly what he says about the first two chapters, the date of composition and language. I only have a hard copy Metzger's Apocrypha 1977 edition where this is on page 23. I found the text used in a different book by...