Charles “Austin” Rivera
@carivera.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Church History at Wake Forest Divinity School | Ephrem and Origen, theology and poetry | Methodist preacher
Huet in 1668 on not treating Origen’s catena fragments: way too much work to track them down and decide what’s genuine.
“Bono susceptum laborem consilio, meliore etiam abjeci” “I began the task with a good intention and laid it aside with a better one.” Relatable!
“Bono susceptum laborem consilio, meliore etiam abjeci” “I began the task with a good intention and laid it aside with a better one.” Relatable!
January 12, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Huet in 1668 on not treating Origen’s catena fragments: way too much work to track them down and decide what’s genuine.
“Bono susceptum laborem consilio, meliore etiam abjeci” “I began the task with a good intention and laid it aside with a better one.” Relatable!
“Bono susceptum laborem consilio, meliore etiam abjeci” “I began the task with a good intention and laid it aside with a better one.” Relatable!
Growing up my mother told me we always went to doctors who were women or non-white bc of the “Jackie Robinson rule” (they had to be twice as good as a white dude). As a kid I thought she was exaggerating, but as an adult I came to realize it was just a mundane concrete fact about the professions.
Accordingly, when I got a tenure-track job, I chose a well-connected white male colleague at my university who was in a related field and one year ahead of me, and I kept an eye on his CV, w/the sense that if I *doubled* what he needed to get tenure, maybe I could get tenure too. +
January 5, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Growing up my mother told me we always went to doctors who were women or non-white bc of the “Jackie Robinson rule” (they had to be twice as good as a white dude). As a kid I thought she was exaggerating, but as an adult I came to realize it was just a mundane concrete fact about the professions.
Syriac hive mind: I recall st about East Syrians in inner Asia asking about a replacement for wine (which wasn’t available) in the Eucharist. Answer had to do with putting grapes in water. Anyone know the reference? Timothy’s letters? Later canonical collection? Did I imagine it?
October 24, 2023 at 6:15 PM
Syriac hive mind: I recall st about East Syrians in inner Asia asking about a replacement for wine (which wasn’t available) in the Eucharist. Answer had to do with putting grapes in water. Anyone know the reference? Timothy’s letters? Later canonical collection? Did I imagine it?
I’ve posted a blog-lengthy summary of my work on grace in Origen and Ephrem at the blog of @eorthodoxy.bsky.social. Check it out!
Grace and Merit in Origen of Alexandria and St Ephrem the Syrian
by Charles Austin Rivera, Ph.D. For many Christians, “grace” is a word often heard and rarely defined. It greets us in the opening of Paul’s epistles (“grace and peace to you...”) and in the...
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September 14, 2023 at 2:04 PM
I’ve posted a blog-lengthy summary of my work on grace in Origen and Ephrem at the blog of @eorthodoxy.bsky.social. Check it out!
Someday I’d like to write something about how the claim that John portrays Jesus as divine and the Synoptics portray him as human first appears in Origen and this is not incidental: it arises from his strongly dualistic Christology. The fact that over the last few centuries… 1/
September 12, 2023 at 2:20 PM
Someday I’d like to write something about how the claim that John portrays Jesus as divine and the Synoptics portray him as human first appears in Origen and this is not incidental: it arises from his strongly dualistic Christology. The fact that over the last few centuries… 1/
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Krista Dalton shares her process for giving oral finals and the benefits of personalized examination.
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How I Give Oral Finals — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
“I want to resist the impulse to see my students as numerical marks to be
ranked against each other. Instead, I encourage their individuality, unique
ways of seeing the world, and habits of though...
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August 31, 2023 at 2:15 PM
Krista Dalton shares her process for giving oral finals and the benefits of personalized examination.
www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2023/8/...
www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2023/8/...
Early Christianity scholars: do you have suggestions for where to submit a long article (19k words) on an aspect of Origen’s theology? I had submitted to Journal of Theological Studies but just received a rejection. What other journals will publish articles of this length?
August 29, 2023 at 5:19 PM
Early Christianity scholars: do you have suggestions for where to submit a long article (19k words) on an aspect of Origen’s theology? I had submitted to Journal of Theological Studies but just received a rejection. What other journals will publish articles of this length?
What’s been missing from the discourse is the fact that “Life it never die” and “Sex I’m wanting more” are excellent illustrations of the Syriac topic-comment sentence.
August 8, 2023 at 4:12 PM
What’s been missing from the discourse is the fact that “Life it never die” and “Sex I’m wanting more” are excellent illustrations of the Syriac topic-comment sentence.
My all-time junk food. Fond memories of plowing through bag after bag of these in Div School.
Late Night Last Call Jalapeno Popper Doritos (2008-circa 2010): These Doritos were part of a "Late Night" series that were meant to replicate bar food. This chip was meant to taste like a jalapeno popper, with cheesy-heat.
August 1, 2023 at 6:50 PM
My all-time junk food. Fond memories of plowing through bag after bag of these in Div School.