Finding Church: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Finding Church I’ve spent a good bit of my adult life studying and thinking about the early Church. While much of my work has focused on the fourth century of the Christian era, I’ve...
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“Giants Walked the Earth”: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
“Giants Walked the Earth” I learned over the weekend of the death of Jimmy Dunn at the age of 80. A friend and colleague, James D. G. Dunn, was one of the leading New...
“Our Bounden Duty…”: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
“Our Bounden Duty…” If the heart of Christianity consists of self-sacrificial love in imitation of Christ himself, what does this say about the pastoral offices within the Church? It has occurred to me that...
Nothing Just Happens: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Nothing Just Happens Three months ago, I had a startling revelation. Owing to a bit of arthritis in my knee, I was much less active physically. My clothes were tight and uncomfortable. I actually...
Common Ground: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Common Ground Earlier this week, I made the following observation. “In D.C. peaceful protestors were cleared with tear gas and rubber bullets so that Trump could have a photo op holding a Bible in...
Failure of Imagination: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
A Failure of Imagination How do you wrap your mind around 103,000 deaths? It’s almost impossible. The number itself becomes an abstraction. The impact, however, becomes a bit more real when I think of...
Signposts: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Signposts +Michael Ramsey often referred to creeds, liturgies and dogmas as “signposts to the Gospel”. That is, they are not to be isolated or set aside from the biblical narrative, the life of the...
Not Sound and Fury, but Grace: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Not Sound and Fury, but Grace Taking my walk this morning, I was thinking and praying about what I see happening around us on the news, in the street, in the church. The...
Heretic : Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Heretic So, this last week I was accused of being a heretic. Now, there are probably a number of theological points on which I might be dragged before a Tribunal of the Inquisition. Among...
Expertise: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Expertise I tend to be a bit conservative when it comes to expertise. Recently, I’ve undertaken a translation and annotation project of Athanasius’ Second Apology. Laid out before me I have the Montfaucon edition...
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