Congratulations to Houston Baptist University

Byhenry July 30, 2009

… on their new Master of Arts in Biblical Languages.

In growing up in the Seventh-day Adventist Church I got used to the idea that in order to teach Bible or become a pastor one started studying theology/religion at the undergraduate level and then continued at the graduate level with the fundamentals out of the way. While I am no longer SDA, I do appreciate my SDA education. I took my BA with a major in Biblical Languages and then was able to take greater advantage of my graduate professors.

My MA was in religion with a concentration in Biblical and Cognate languages, so didn’t look much like the one that HBU is offering, but it looks like a good program.

So all in all, this is the kind of thing I like to see happening at Christian schools.

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Pat Robertson on Haiti

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I’ll let Polycarp (The Church of Jesus Christ) comment on it. I’ll just say perhaps he should be more careful ascribing motivations to God.

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Dance Floor Worship

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I have been working on cleaning up some of my old web site articles and reposting them were appropriate. I found one I forgot I’d written, titled Dance Floor Worship. I said regarding a moment looking out over the Gulf of Mexico: I can call this a secular moment, and wonder when I will be…

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A Liberating Theology

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Liberation theology gets improperly defined and beaten up on a regular basis. Some complain that it ignores the spiritual element, ignores Jesus as savior, and tries to ignore sin. It’s fairly easy to make this case out of the Bible. There is, after all, Romans 13, in which Paul tells Christians to submit to the…

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Property May Stay with Breakaway Churches

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According to a story on MSNBC.com, some breakaway Episcopal churches in Virginia may be able to keep their property rather than having it go to the denomination. This is a ruling on only one point, and it is based on a law from just after the civil war when there were many issues of this…

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Not Looking for the Perfect Church, but …

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Via Allan Bevere I located this interview with Scot McKnight, in which McKnight makes a number of interesting statements. The one that caught my attention most was: … A proper kingdom theology leads people to the middle of the church, not away from it. So it makes a difference when church is on the decline…

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A Comment on Criticism

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I wanted to promote a comment from Chris Heard: (who blogs at Higgaion) Sadly, when I clicked through to the article on Charisma News, one of the sidebars pointed to another Charisma News article entitled “This Is What Heretical, Counterfeit Christianity in Action Looks Like.” That article condemned an Anglican preacher as “sinning” and practicing…

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Phillip Marshall says:

August 2, 2009 at 9:16 pm

Dear Henry,

Thanks for your comments on the MA we’re offering. It is indeed exciting to be at this point in our program, and we appreciate your mentioning it here for other to be aware of.

Dr. Black mentioned the other day that you were his publisher–I didn’t realize that you had published his latest book. Congratulations!

Maybe we’ll have opportunity to meet some day.

Warmly,

Dr. Phillip Marshall
Houston Baptist University

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1. Henry Neufeld says:
  
  August 3, 2009 at 8:57 am
  
  What attracted me to this particular story is that not only do you have a MA in Biblical languages, but you are building it on a BA in Biblical Languages. When I tell people I have a BA in Biblical Languages, the normal response is, “I didn’t know there was such a thing.”
  
  I think the church would be well served by more teachers with such a degree.
  
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