I’m back from Prague but jet-lagged. Tomorrow I will gather my notes together and report on some of the highlights. The theme of the congress was “between Fundamentalism and Secularism–The Church in the Middle of the Village, in the Open Air of Intellectual Discussion.” The next congress in four years, the time of the next [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Back from Prague
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not quite minute by minute . . .
Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not sure how many people read the “Comments” so I am copying my reply to a comment about the Bonhoeffer Conference, which is underway now.
Tuesday evening I saw a famous German theologian wandering around about apparently lost round 6 PM. So I led him to the cafeteria and had supper with him and enjoyed [...]
Codex Sinaiticus Online
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bibel, news on July 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Codex Sinaiticus
Der Codex Sinaiticus ist eines der bedeutendsten Bücher der Welt. Vor über 1600 Jahren mit Hand geschrieben, enthält es die christliche Bibel auf Griechisch mit dem vollständigen Neun Testament. Der mit Anmerkungen reich versehene Text besitzt außergewöhnlichen Wert für die Geschichte der Bibel. Die Handschrift ist als das umfangreichste Buch, das wir aus der [...]
Bonhoeffer Congress Is In Motion
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bonhoeffer Congress, Prague, travel on July 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have another Bonhoeffer selection almost ready to post, but it may have to wait a day or two due to technical problems.
Meanwhile, I am here in the fabulously beautiful and historic city of Praha, Prague, awaiting the start of the Tenth Bonhoeffer Congress. Like the Olympics and presidential elections, the Bonhoeffer Congress occurs [...]
Decisive Events Are in Motion
Posted in Bonhoeffer, Lesestücke (Readings), tagged 1 Peter, conspiracy, decision, decisive events, destiny, Jeremiah, judgment, plot against Hitler, Psalms on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
April 30, 1944 to Eberhard Bethge from Tegel, 1 of 7
Bonhoeffer seems to be thinking of the plot against Hitler. He expresses the feeling that decisive events are underway as he writes. As it turned out, June 20 of the same year was the day of the failed attempt.
Das Gefühl, daß jeden Tag [...]
More Resources
Posted in Resources on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some more resources for German I have recently stumbled upon:
Suggestions for Teaching Adjective Endings collected by Katherine Munro and posted on Brian Zahn’s KHS linguistics site. There are tons of links on this page.
About.com offers a free online German Course with audio here.
Jim Becker’s Collection of super German websites has about everything you [...]
Education, Classics, and Travel (3 of 3)
Posted in Lesestücke (Readings), tagged classics, education, Hegel, renaisance, travel on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
March 9, 1944 to Eberhard Bethge, from Tegel
Wieweit also hängt “Bildung” noch mit der Antike zusammen?
Ist die Ranke’ – bis Delbruck’sche Konzeption der Geschichte als eines Kontinuums, das aus “Altertum”, “Mittelalter” und “Neuzeit” besteht, wirklich gültig? oder hat nicht Spengler mit der These von den in sich geschlossenen Kulturkreisen mindestens auch recht [...]
