Colvinism

One of my bugbears as a classicist is the way NT scholarship has accepted the thesis that the pastoral epistles (1 and 2 Timothy and Titus) are pseudepigraphic, largely on the grounds of style.

The Seventh Council’s (2nd Nicea) attempt to distinguish latreia from proskynesis is not sustainable by the Biblical evidence.

Raphael, The Mass at Bolsena, 1511.

One of the biggest problems when discussing the question of Eucharistic adoration is what is meant by the phrase “Real Presence”.

Detail from Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina, The Eucharistic Christ. 1520 – 1530.

A locust plague in Kenya from 2020.

I had the pleasure of delivering a talk for the Davenant Institute’s Teaching Fellows lecture series.

Hailstones from England in August, 2019.

Exodus 8 8:1 – καὶ ἐπὶ τὰς διώρυγας “and over the ditches,” a reference to irrigation channels in Egypt. καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ ἕλη – “and over the marshes” 8:2 – καὶ ἀνεβιβάσθη ὁ βάτραχος καὶ ἐκάλυψεν τὴν γῆν Αἰγύπτου – “and the frog was brought up and covered the l…

6:30 – Moses protests that he has a speech impediment.