Posted in linguistics, tagged linguistics at sussex on 30 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re shocked to discover that management can close down a university department without consultation – and even more shocked to discover they’ve chosen Linguistics as their victim this time – please be encouraged to sign this petition:
Save Linguistics
And/or join the Facebook group.
As reported in the local paper here and here, and causing shockwaves throughout [...]
Posted in general on 24 March 2009 | 32 Comments »
(Following a line of thought thrown up by the discussion on providence.)
Don Carson says:
“God is transcendent, sovereign, and personal.
By transcendent I mean that God exists apart from the creation that he made, and thus above space and time. Thus he is not in any way dependent upon his creation; he is self-existing – that is, [...]
Posted in books on 20 March 2009 | 7 Comments »
Got home late last night to find the two volumes of William Cunningham’s Historical Theology waiting for me.
It’s part of my long-term but under-realised goal of reading more deeply in home-grown theologians – and Cunningham was one of the most profound of the group of mid-19th century Scottish theologians. I can’t wait to get the [...]
Posted in general on 17 March 2009 | 1 Comment »
I don’t link to that many other blogs, not because I don’t read them, but just to avoid long lists of links down the side of the page. Also, the ones that make it into my list tend not to include the big names that don’t need a link from me to make them known.
But [...]
Posted in general on 13 March 2009 | 7 Comments »
From one of Thomas Goodwin’s treatises:
“The office of high priesthood is altogether an office of grace, and I may call it the pardon office, set up and erected by God in heaven, and Christ is appointed the Lord and Master of it.
“And, as his kingly office is an office of power and dominion, and his [...]
Posted in bible, calvinism, quotes on 9 March 2009 | 3 Comments »
Thomas Boston:
The design of providence may sometimes lie very hid; and therefore it is good to wait, and not be rash, Psa 78:19.
Sometimes providence seems to forget the promise; but it is not so, but only the time of the promise is not then come. Gen 15:4 with 16:2.
Sometimes providence seems to go quite cross [...]
Posted in general on 7 March 2009 | 31 Comments »
How much effort should you put into trying to understand your providences?
Take it as a given that all things work together for good to them that love God.
Also, take it for granted that we clearly aren’t able to comprehend all the details of our circumstances or understand fully how they fit together or see all [...]
Posted in general on 7 March 2009 | 2 Comments »
John MacLeod is publishing books faster than I can review them. His latest, When I Heard the Bell, was fresh out in February – just months after Banner in the West (published last October).
The newest one is rather more harrowing than what I normally read, and I’ll make no promises about reviewing it. But my [...]
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