Daily Prayers:
- A. Book of Common Prayer
- A. Book of Common Prayer 2
- A. Divine Hours
- A. Evening Prayer (Anglican)
- A. Morning Prayer (Anglican)
- Celtic Prayer
- Creeds of Christendom
- Eastern Orthodox Prayers
- Lectionary
- Liturgy of the Hours
- Missio Dei
Emerging Movement:
- Andrew Jones
- Andrew Perriman
- Anthony Stiff
- Art Boulet
- Bob Robinson
- Br. Maynard
- Dan Kimball
- David Fitch
- Dogwood Abbey
- Ecclesia Network
- Emerging Women
- Eugene Cho
- Henrik Holmgaard
- Jamie Arpin-Ricci
- Jazz Theologian
- John Frye
- John Lagrou
- Jonny Baker
- JR Briggs
- Leonard Hjamarlson
- LeRon Shults
- Lukas McKnight
- Peggy Brown
- Sivin Kit
- Stephen Shields
- Steve McCoy
- Steve Taylor
- Tamara Buchan
- The Practicing Church
- Tim Miekley
- Todd Hiestand
- Tom Smith (RSA)
- Tony Jones
Other sites I frequent:
- Allan Bevere
- Andy Rowell
- Attie Nel
- Barna
- Brad Boydston
- Chris Ridgeway
- CC Blogs
- Don Johnson
- Ed Gilbreath
- Erika Haub (Carney)
- Faith Blogging
- Falsani
- Fr. Rob
- Hummers
- iMonk
- James McGrath
- Jim Martin
- John Stackhouse
- JR Woodward
- Karen Spears Zacharias
- Laura Barringer
- LaVonne Neff
- LeaderFOCUS
- LL Barkat
- Luke/Annika
- Mark Galli
- Mark Roberts
- Michael Kruse
- Nexus
- Owen Youngman
- Ted Gossard
- Tom Wright
Recommended Online Readings:
Scholarly Books I’ve written:
- Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels
- Hist Jesus Anthology
- Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels
- Introducing NT Interpretation
- Jesus and His Death
- Jesus in Memory (ed.)
- New Vision for Israel
- Synoptics: Biblio
- The Face of New Testament Studies
- Who Do They Say I Am?
Scholarship Online:
- Apollos
- Books & Culture
- ChristianityToday
- CS Lewis
- EAC
- Early Xian Writings
- Euaggelion
- Gospels
- Jesus and His Death Blog
- Karl Barth Online
- Mark Goodacre’s Weblog
- Online Journals Access
- Online Pseudepigraph
- Pete Enns
- Prime Time Jesus
- Theopedia
- ThinkTank
Stuff online:
- 5 Streams
- Big Muddy
- Catalyst Scripture
- Catching the Wave
- DaVinci Code
- Forgiveness
- Future or Fad?
- Gospel of Judas
- High Calling
- Interview on Emerging
- Interview with LL Barkat
- IVCF Eikons
- IVCF Gospel
- John Bunyan
- Keys of the Kingdom
- Lake Emerging
- Mary in CT
- Missional in Seattle
- Missional Matrix
- Nativity Story
- Never Alone
- New Perspective
- Pepperdine Interview
- Professor as Scholar
- Recl Mind Mary 1
- Robust Gospel
- Social Justice
- Trojan Horse 2
- WiredParish Mary Interview
- Word/World NPP















posted June 11, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I like “Sitting on the Areopagus Listening to Greek Philosophers.” That would be a real tear-jerker!
posted June 11, 2009 at 10:15 pm
It seems all to common for philosophers to ignore Jewishness. My greatest complaint about the philosophy textbook from which I teach is that there is no mention of the Jewish tradition at all. Augustine was the first Christian philosopher – and he seems to have come from no where (except for the Greek influence).
posted June 12, 2009 at 12:53 am
I pointed out at the start of the book that the the New Testament is an overwhelmingly Jewish book . . . but that this book was an attempt to explain the smaller, thought still vital, Greek background to the world of the New Testament. It is a brief tour (oh the things I had to cut!) of what was going on in Greek thought (particularly Plato) before Christ.
In any case, I hope it can help younger college students (a main market) understand those thinkers.
John Mark
posted June 12, 2009 at 12:57 am
I should add that even a quick Google will show that Torrey Honors has at least five Evangelical theologians/Biblical studies faculty. (It depends on how you count each category.
I am totally unaware of being in the “middle” of any turn to anything amongst Biola students other than (I hope)the faith described in the Biola statement of faith.
In any case, like any author I am thankful for the attention!
posted June 12, 2009 at 2:34 am
Mixing Greek philosophy with Jewish wisdom is like mixing oil with water and it takes a whole lot of shaking and emulsifiers to get a presentable package. Jewish wisdom concentrated on an organic, dust-to-dust outlook on life while Greek philosophy, at least since Plato’s interpretation of Socrates, emphasized a dualistic approach to nature and life. “Greek thinking” is fine when it concentrates on logical thought processes but not so fine when it falls back on a “spirit” vs “nature” dualism. A concern: is this a package deal?
posted June 12, 2009 at 3:35 am
Mike . . . your concerns are a reason I wrote the book. I meet them a great deal. A good thing of the last fifty years or so has been an increase in knowledge amongst college educated folks of the importance of Jewish thought . . . a bad thing has been to just create the category “Greek thought” and talk about “dualism” and “logic” without really understanding (even in a simple way) what is happening.
I have met college professors (though fortunately not at Biola) who thought (for example) that Plato (not the neo-Platonists) could be dismissed as someone who just hated “the body!”
Hopefully this book will dispel simplistic approaches to Plato like that one (not attributing it to you).
posted June 12, 2009 at 8:43 am
I enjoy reading at scriptoriumdaily.com. When I read the review of the book here http://www.scriptoriumdaily.com/2009/05/25/lets-get-classical-reynolds-new-book-on-greek-thought/ I gathered that it was primarily about Plato vis-a-vis early Christianity. I cannot speak as a scholar, only a student, but I am in favor of getting more believers to think more about the backgrounds of Christianity. My impression was that this book is written to be accessible and to help inform of Greek backgrounds to Christian thought. If the same number of people who devour Dan Brown’s works would consider books such as these, it seems to me the public would be more well-informed. But perhaps I misunderstand…
posted June 12, 2009 at 11:44 am
John (#7): I apologize. My comment was directed at an interpretation of your book and not the book itself. That’s wrong and something I’ve denounced myself since listening to criticisms of “The Last Temptation of Christ” by people who never saw it.
posted June 12, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Hum…thanks for this pointer, ScottM. What might Nash’s The Gospel and the Greeks have to contribute here?