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Some good news in what has been a rather fruitless season of job hunting: my doctoral thesis has been accepted, passed unanimously through peer review, and will be published in Brill's 'Studies in the History of Christian Traditions' series. 🙌
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1) Historical texts carry contexts with them.
E.g., if I read in Luther’s late Judenschriften doubts about the reliability of the Hebrew vowel points, can I understand his comments well without knowing about the 1538 publication of Elijah Levita’s seminal work on this topic?
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As I’ve shared before, if you’re interested in studying Reformed theology right at its original epicenter this might be a degree for you. It is very affordable (funded by Switzerland itself).
Very pleased to see this come together:
Together with Geneva’s Faculty of Protestant Theology, the Institut d’histoire de la Réformation is launching a Master’s program in Reformed Studies, starting Fall 2027. It will be international (all in English), interdisciplinary, and affordable.
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Nature is healing
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Lovely to see this out and available this morning!
(If I am permitted a small boast, the editor of the volume said he assumed I must be one of Bernie McGinn's students after reading my chapter, which is quite literally the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.)
In some more happy dissertation related news: I found out this morning my doctoral thesis was awarded the University of Geneva's Théodore Claparède prize for outstanding doctoral theses in the field of Theology.
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This is a reminder that this Saturday (Sept 19th) is the first day of our our two-day online symposium, 'Richard Hooker amongst the Reformers'. Email [email protected] for the link. There is no cost to attend!
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Also, I'm currently in the process of applying for an open-access grant through the Swiss National Science Foundation. The hope is that this book will be accessible to whoever wants to read it.
"[T]oday's subforties have very different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without even once having loved something more than yourself." David Foster Wallace (1997)
My review of Stephen Chester's "Paul Through the Eyes of the Reformers: Living under Grace" is now available in the latest volume of Reformed Theological Review: rtrjournal.org/index.php/RTR…
From Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (a novel I wish I had read years ago):
"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."