29 Mar An Invitation to Alexandria

I recently added a tab to a side-project I work on while I partake in my daily Scripture study: compiling Alexandrian patristic commentaries and adding them to my Bible, as well as creating a modified Majority Text Greek-to-English translation. It seemed fitting to invite others to participate as well and publish some of the material online, so I added a tab to the Alexandrine Bible on a menu tab. Please read more about this endeavor on that page; it is a massive undertaking, but I know of no other kind.

My editor for Ghosts in Our Doctrine recommended I begin consolidating my first few chapters to better integrate the diverse range of material into a formal, instructive introductory section. I agree, and so I will be reviewing some of the principle authors I draw upon as my model for this book (Barnes, Bradshaw, Zachhuber, etc.) and try to mirror their simultaneously concept-procedural and chronological structure. If you have ideas or notes on the book’s organization, I am open to criticism and feedback.

I wish you and pray for your Lenten penance and a satisfying celebration of our Lord’s Resurrection. The principal gospel of the Resurrection is not merely vindication of Christ’s ministry, but a sign of the destruction of death. As Saint Athanasius says in De Incarnatione:

For being over all, the Word of God naturally by offering His own temple and corporeal instrument for the life of all satisfied the debt by His death. And thus He, the incorruptible Son of God, being conjoined with all by a like nature, naturally clothed all with incorruption, by the promise of the resurrection.