If you can face looking at me for so long, you can watch a thirty minute (ish) video of a talk I gave for the staff of Wycliffe UK earlier this month. The official blurb says: Eddie speaks about the essence of God’s character as Father, Son and Spirit, and how Bible Translation is a […]
Following on from Nick Norelli’s very successful Trinity Blogging Summit (and other similar events) I’d like to propose a similar ideafor those with a specialist interest in Bible translation for minority language groups. The idea would be to draw together papers on both the theory and practice of minority language translation work (including ethnomusicology, Rob). […]
Nick Norelli has just posted 8 excellent article on the Trinity. They are the work of a number of authors from a variety of backgrounds and if the sample I have read is anything to go by, they will be well worth studying. You can find the links here. The quote below is from Doug […]
Last weekend during a church service the leader talked about a training scheme which the church is running saying something along the lines of we study the Bible in more detail using Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology. Now, I might be awkward, but I’m far from convinced that studying a systematic theology is a good way […]
Imagine for a moment that I only spoke Kouya and that I had something really important to say to you. How would I get my message across? Well assuming that gestures and an elaborate mime didn’t quite achieve the goal, I’d need to employ a translator. There are many theories about how translation works and […]
Who knows, this might grow into a series, but for the moment, you can read one good explanation as to why a Christian belief in the Trinity is important here. “I believe in an Almighty God,” said President Bush in an interview with Al Arabiya, “and I believe that all the world, whether they be […]
Click this link to take a quiz and find which theologian you most resemble. Somewhat surprisingly, I find myself as being like Anselm. I suppose that studying the Trinity has made me more in line with some early theologians than their later equivalents. I do have a 73% overlap with Calvin though, so I’m still […]
“Here the monks gathered every Sunday to hear a sermon from the Abbot, except on Trinity Sunday owning to the difficulty of the subject.” I found this quote in an article by Bishop Lesslie Newbigin. It rather sums up the way that we seem to find the Trinity a very difficult subject to talk or […]
“If you really want to understand a culture, then you have to understand the language. It is no good visiting a country, looking at its historic sites, reading translations of its literature, finding out its history. That is why maintaing indigenous languages is so important to preserving cultural identity. The same is true of the […]
Sometimes when I’m facilitating a planning workshop, I find myself rushed off my feet. This week, has been rather the opposite, I give the group work to do and they just get on and do it without asking me lots of questions. This means I’ve had some time to catch up on my reading. I’ve […]