tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85880164370864971222024-03-05T08:40:14.924-06:00As it is WrittenAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.comBlogger187125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-44937706890998429472014-03-30T10:37:00.000-06:002014-03-30T10:45:00.320-06:00Noah Review<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After going to see “Noah” on
Friday a few friends asked me to write a review. Here goes. My opinion: I thoroughly
enjoyed Noah as a movie, an adaptation of a biblical story, and for drawing attention
to a largely forgotten but important tradition—the Watchers!</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">
<img class="irc_mut" height="317" src="data:image/jpeg;base64,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" style="margin-top: 119px;" width="214" /></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><br />
<h3 class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I. As a Movie</span></span></h3>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I thought Noah, directed by Darren Aronofsky, was an entertaining and, in some ways,
profound movie. The acting and writing was well done and I was particularly impressed
with Russell Crowe’s portrayal of Noah as a conflicted man. Too often
Christians tend to think of biblical characters, especially the good ones, as
righteous robots. They have no inner-conflict, no choice, and, as a result, no
humanity. Crowe showed us a Noah at the brink of insanity because of his
calling. In addition to Crowe’s Noah, the movie explored profound existential
questions about justice and humanity’s relationship with the rest of the world.
I was intellectually challenged and engrossed in the movie that somehow managed
to avoid being predictable. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At the same time, there were parts of the movie that I didn’t
enjoy. I thought it was a bit long, dragging out scenes without much effect.
There were occasional montages of nature footage which I thought were over the
top. (Confession: I hated Aronofsky’s “The Fountain”). I thought the
environmental justice message was inconsistent with Noah’s unflinching and
merciless killing. Still, I was challenged to see a well-known story in a new
way and think about its implications for the contemporary world.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><br />
<h3 class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">II. As an Adaptation</span></span></h3>
<br />
<h3>
</h3>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As an adaptation of a biblical story I thought Noah was
fantastic. Sure, there were parts of the story that were not exactly as
portrayed in the text of Genesis 6–9, but Aronofsky managed to stay remarkably
close to the text and write a fascinating story addressing contemporary issues.
Good preaching does much the same thing, fills in narrative gaps to re-tell an
old story in a new way. Agree with it or not, I think the movie is an
interesting adaptation that deserves attention.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<h3 class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">III. Watchers</span></span></h3>
<br />
<h3>
</h3>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What about the “Watchers”? </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Did this Hollywood director simply add angels-turned-rock-people
to make Christians angry and blow some of his budget? The short answer is no.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The flood narrative in Genesis begins with an odd account of
the “Sons of God” taking “daughters of men” as their wives and producing giant offspring
(Genesis 6:1–4). Most contemporary preachers avoid this weird story so many people
have never heard it. But, this story was the most important resource in the
Hebrew Bible for Jews and Christians from about 300 BCE to 200 CE to talk about
the origin of evil. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">To summarize a fascinating and complicated narrative, the
story of Genesis 6:1–4 was interpreted in the <i>Book of Watchers</i> to tell the
story of fallen angels called “Watchers.” In this story, angels see human women
and want to have sex with them and produce offspring. These 200 angels make a
pact, leave heaven and find earth girls are easy. The result of their
transgression is the introduction of magic, sorcery, metallurgy and cosmetics,
all technologies that led to the deterioration and destruction of humanity. In
addition to these destructive arts, the Watchers have giant offspring that devour
humanity and perpetuate more and more violence on the earth. Eventually, these
creatures become demons.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This story gets reworked in different ways in Jewish and
Christian literature, but the basic outline of the <i>Book of Watchers</i>
story is fairly consistent. In fact, the Watchers story is explicitly mentioned
in 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 6. It also appears in post-New Testament Christian
writings as an important resource for explaining the origin of evil. Justin Martyr
is a particularly clear example:</span></span></div>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">God, when
He had made the whole world, [. . .] committed the care of men and of all
things under heaven to angels whom He appointed over them. But the angels
transgressed this appointment, and were captivated by love of women, and begat
children who are those that are called demons; and besides, they afterwards
subdued the human race to themselves, partly by magical writings, and partly by
fears and the punishments they occasioned, and partly by teaching them to offer
sacrifices, and incense, and libations, of which things they stood in need
after they were enslaved by lustful passions; and among men they sowed murders,
wars, adulteries, intemperate deeds, and all wickedness. (<i>Apology</i> 2:5, cited
from <i>ANF</i> 1.190).</span></span>
</blockquote>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Aronofsky draws from an ancient interpretive tradition that
developed around the story of Genesis 6:1–4 to tell his story about angels
getting redeemed. The movie version of the story is substantially different
from the ancient one because in the ancient retelling the Watchers are far more
problematic and mate with human women. SPOILER ALERT: The rock-people Watchers
of Aronofsky’s movie are basically good angels trying to help humanity and end
up returning to heaven. Also, they are not getting physical with the ladies.
Interestingly enough, then, the most substantial deviation that Aronofsky makes
from the tradition is in regard to the Watchers, but not because they appear in
the story but because of what they do in his version. Had we gotten a more “accurate”
version this movie probably would not have been PG-13. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In full disclosure, I was disappointed with the portrayal of
the Watchers, who do not get redeemed in any traditional retelling of the story
and are held as significantly responsible for the evil that plagues humanity.
Also, the rock-people Watchers seemed goofy to me, just sayin.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<h3 class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Conclusion:</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is a good movie. I don’t think it was a
great movie, but certainly worth watching. I thought it was a laudable
adaptation, faithful to the original story and an imaginative retelling. Best
of all, Aronofsky’s Noah can help us recover a largely forgotten tradition.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-76997676679907508792014-01-14T10:43:00.000-06:002014-01-14T10:43:04.943-06:00Deutsch für Neutestamentlers<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As a developing scholar who is keenly interested in the Apostle Paul I am devoted to developing my German competency. I've used three different reference grammars/reading guides and I'm currently working my way through Rosetta Stone. Also, I'll probably take a readings course before I finish my PhD. For those interested, let me draw your attention to a new online resource.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There are a few good websites out there for those interested in learning to read German for <a href="http://www.andyrowell.net/theological_german/grammars.html" target="_blank">advanced biblical/theological studies</a>, but the newest addition, which is a gift to budding New Testament scholars merits your attention. <a href="http://wcoppins.myweb.uga.edu/" target="_blank">Wayne Coppins</a>, Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Georgia has started <a href="http://wmcoppins.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">a blog devoted to German for New Testament scholars</a>. The site looks great and will no doubt be a helpful and unique tool for those interested in learning the language for research purposes. Coppins is a seasoned translator who, as some of you might already know, recently translated Jens Schröter's <i>Von Jesus zum Neuen Testament </i>for the Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity series. Anyone interested in learning to read German should frequent Coppin's blog.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You're welcome blogosphere.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-55649097836435067292014-01-04T21:47:00.000-06:002014-01-04T21:47:17.828-06:00Did Paul invent Christian Theology?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VjN+5vOpL._SY344_PJlook-inside-v2,TopRight,1,0_SH20_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VjN+5vOpL._SY344_PJlook-inside-v2,TopRight,1,0_SH20_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:AllowPNG/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]--><br />
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves/>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:DoNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>HE</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
<w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/>
<w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/>
<w:OverrideTableStyleHps/>
</w:Compatibility>
<m:mathPr>
<m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/>
<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
<m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/>
<m:smallFrac m:val="off"/>
<m:dispDef/>
<m:lMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:rMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/>
<m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/>
<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
</m:mathPr></w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="false"
DefSemiHidden="false" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"
LatentStyleCount="371">
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footnote text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="header"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footer"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="35" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="caption"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="table of figures"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="envelope address"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="envelope return"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footnote reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="line number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="page number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="endnote reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="endnote text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="table of authorities"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="macro"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="toa heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="10" QFormat="true" Name="Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Closing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Signature"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="Default Paragraph Font"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Message Header"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="11" QFormat="true" Name="Subtitle"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Salutation"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Date"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text First Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text First Indent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Note Heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Block Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Hyperlink"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="FollowedHyperlink"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="22" QFormat="true" Name="Strong"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="20" QFormat="true" Name="Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Document Map"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Plain Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="E-mail Signature"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Top of Form"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Bottom of Form"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal (Web)"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Acronym"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Address"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Cite"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Code"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Definition"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Keyboard"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Preformatted"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Sample"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Typewriter"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Variable"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal Table"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation subject"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="No List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Contemporary"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Elegant"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Professional"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Subtle 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Subtle 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Balloon Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="Table Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Theme"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" Name="Placeholder Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" QFormat="true" Name="No Spacing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" Name="Revision"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="34" QFormat="true"
Name="List Paragraph"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="29" QFormat="true" Name="Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="30" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="19" QFormat="true"
Name="Subtle Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="21" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="31" QFormat="true"
Name="Subtle Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="32" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="Bibliography"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="41" Name="Plain Table 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="42" Name="Plain Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="43" Name="Plain Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="44" Name="Plain Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="45" Name="Plain Table 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="40" Name="Grid Table Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46" Name="Grid Table 1 Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51" Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52" Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46" Name="List Table 1 Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51" Name="List Table 6 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52" Name="List Table 7 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 6"/>
</w:LatentStyles>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>
<style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin-top:0in;
mso-para-margin-right:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt;
mso-para-margin-left:0in;
line-height:107%;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In some down-time from PhD coursework I am reading N. T. Wright's long
awaited <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Faithfulness-God-N-Wright/dp/0800626834/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388893329&sr=8-1&keywords=Paul+and+the+Faithfulness+of+God" target="_blank">Paul and the Faithfulness of God</a> </i>(PFG). I<i> </i>came across this
striking claim,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the extraordinary achievements of Paul was to turn 'theology' into a
different kind of thing from what it had been before in the world either of the
Jews or of the pagans. <i>One of the central arguments of the present book is
that this was the direct result of a corollary of what had happened to Paul's
worldview</i>. Paul effectively invented 'Christian Theology' to meet a
previously unknown need, to do a job which had not, until then, been necessary.
(p 26, <i>italics original</i>)</span></span></blockquote>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This statement is in the larger context of Wright's argument that the study
of Paul, or any ancient person, must be holistic. That is, one cannot simply
explain Paul’s “theology” as a systematic collection of ideas as though Paul
were simply a brain walking around on two legs (p. 28). This is a throwback to
his argument in <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Testament-People-Christian-Origins-Question/dp/0800626818/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388893293&sr=8-1&keywords=The+New+Testament+and+the+People+of+God" target="_blank">The New Testament and the People of God</a> </i>Part II (especially chapters 2–4) and makes an important
point. When Wright speaks of “worldview” he clarifies that he wants to include social scientific
studies while avoiding reducing Paul to a mere product of his culture, social
imaginary, etc. In this way he posits a threefold hermeneutical spiral for Paul
that includes worldview, theology and history (p. 23–24). Each is element is
necessary for a “thick description” of Paul and no element can be avoided
without reductionism.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In PFG, however, Wright goes further to make a specific claim about Paul’s
role in <i>creating </i>Christian theology. It’s not entirely clear to me what exactly
Wright means by “Christian theology” here, and his explanation of this claim is terse. However, I think that as Wright sees it, when
Paul was confronted with fundamental “why” questions,“he had to speak of one
particular God, and of the world, in a way nobody had before” (p. 27). Wright
sees Paul doing something radically new with theology both in its content and its function within his larger worldview. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As Wright sees it, Paul’s theology is part of a new worldview, a revision of
Jewish theology so radical in content that it came to a serve a new function in his worldview. Using the example of Philemon, Wright describes Paul’s unique worldview as it relates to “reconciliation”,</span></span><br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is no sign that he is appealing to, or making use of, the symbols and
praxis of his Jewish native world. Nor is he appealing to an implied world of
social convention [. . .]. Nor is he drawing on any previously elaborated philosophical
[. . . ] schemes of thought. He has stepped out of the Jewish boat, but not
onto any hidden stepping-stones offered from within the non-Jewish world. He
appears to be walking on the water of a whole new worldview. (p. 30)
</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Based on what Wright does here, it appears to me that Wright is saying Paul's invention of Christian Theology is a result of new theological content about God based on his experience of the risen Christ which raises theology to a new more central activity for those who claim to follow the risen Christ.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What do you think? Did Paul "invent" Christian theology? And if so, in what sense? </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-59105726495088788722013-12-01T11:50:00.000-06:002013-12-01T11:50:26.997-06:00Advent Exhortation<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:AllowPNG/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]--><br />
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves/>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:DoNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>HE</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
<w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/>
<w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/>
<w:OverrideTableStyleHps/>
</w:Compatibility>
<m:mathPr>
<m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/>
<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
<m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/>
<m:smallFrac m:val="off"/>
<m:dispDef/>
<m:lMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:rMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/>
<m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/>
<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
</m:mathPr></w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="false"
DefSemiHidden="false" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"
LatentStyleCount="371">
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footnote text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="header"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footer"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="35" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="caption"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="table of figures"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="envelope address"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="envelope return"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footnote reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="line number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="page number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="endnote reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="endnote text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="table of authorities"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="macro"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="toa heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="10" QFormat="true" Name="Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Closing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Signature"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="Default Paragraph Font"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Message Header"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="11" QFormat="true" Name="Subtitle"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Salutation"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Date"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text First Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text First Indent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Note Heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Block Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Hyperlink"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="FollowedHyperlink"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="22" QFormat="true" Name="Strong"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="20" QFormat="true" Name="Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Document Map"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Plain Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="E-mail Signature"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Top of Form"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Bottom of Form"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal (Web)"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Acronym"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Address"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Cite"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Code"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Definition"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Keyboard"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Preformatted"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Sample"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Typewriter"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Variable"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal Table"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation subject"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="No List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Contemporary"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Elegant"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Professional"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Subtle 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Subtle 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Balloon Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="Table Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Theme"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" Name="Placeholder Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" QFormat="true" Name="No Spacing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" Name="Revision"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="34" QFormat="true"
Name="List Paragraph"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="29" QFormat="true" Name="Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="30" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="19" QFormat="true"
Name="Subtle Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="21" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="31" QFormat="true"
Name="Subtle Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="32" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="Bibliography"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="41" Name="Plain Table 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="42" Name="Plain Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="43" Name="Plain Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="44" Name="Plain Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="45" Name="Plain Table 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="40" Name="Grid Table Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46" Name="Grid Table 1 Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51" Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52" Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46" Name="List Table 1 Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51" Name="List Table 6 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52" Name="List Table 7 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 6"/>
</w:LatentStyles>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>
<style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin-top:0in;
mso-para-margin-right:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt;
mso-para-margin-left:0in;
line-height:107%;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The words from the second century Christian Apocalypse <i>Shepherd
of Hermas</i> seemed particularly appropriate for the first day of Advent:</span></span></div>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>Do not partake of God’s creation in abundance by
yourselves, but also share with those in need. For by overeating some people
bring on themselves fleshy weaknesses and injure their flesh, while the flesh
of those who do not have anything to eat is injured because they do not have
enough food, and their bodies are wasting away. [. . .] Look to the coming
judgment. You, therefore, who have more than enough, seek out those who are
hungry. (17.2-5)</span></span></span></blockquote>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-58723742457911706772013-11-30T16:50:00.000-06:002013-11-30T16:50:08.564-06:00The Blow Up in Baltimore (Part 2 – The Sparks)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:AllowPNG/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]--><br />
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves/>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:DoNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>HE</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
<w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/>
<w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/>
<w:OverrideTableStyleHps/>
</w:Compatibility>
<m:mathPr>
<m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/>
<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
<m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/>
<m:smallFrac m:val="off"/>
<m:dispDef/>
<m:lMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:rMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/>
<m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/>
<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
</m:mathPr></w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="false"
DefSemiHidden="false" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"
LatentStyleCount="371">
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footnote text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="header"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footer"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="35" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="caption"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="table of figures"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="envelope address"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="envelope return"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footnote reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="line number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="page number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="endnote reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="endnote text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="table of authorities"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="macro"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="toa heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="10" QFormat="true" Name="Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Closing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Signature"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="Default Paragraph Font"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Message Header"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="11" QFormat="true" Name="Subtitle"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Salutation"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Date"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text First Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text First Indent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Note Heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Block Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Hyperlink"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="FollowedHyperlink"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="22" QFormat="true" Name="Strong"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="20" QFormat="true" Name="Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Document Map"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Plain Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="E-mail Signature"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Top of Form"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Bottom of Form"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal (Web)"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Acronym"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Address"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Cite"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Code"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Definition"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Keyboard"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Preformatted"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Sample"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Typewriter"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Variable"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal Table"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation subject"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="No List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Contemporary"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Elegant"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Professional"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Subtle 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Subtle 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Balloon Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="Table Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Theme"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" Name="Placeholder Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" QFormat="true" Name="No Spacing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" Name="Revision"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="34" QFormat="true"
Name="List Paragraph"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="29" QFormat="true" Name="Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="30" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="19" QFormat="true"
Name="Subtle Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="21" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="31" QFormat="true"
Name="Subtle Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="32" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="Bibliography"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="41" Name="Plain Table 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="42" Name="Plain Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="43" Name="Plain Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="44" Name="Plain Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="45" Name="Plain Table 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="40" Name="Grid Table Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46" Name="Grid Table 1 Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51" Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52" Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46" Name="List Table 1 Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51" Name="List Table 6 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52" Name="List Table 7 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 6"/>
</w:LatentStyles>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>
<style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin-top:0in;
mso-para-margin-right:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt;
mso-para-margin-left:0in;
line-height:107%;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Having given a <a href="http://ahabhuman.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-blow-up-in-baltimore-part-1-summary.html" target="_blank">summary </a>of the papers delivered during the
Social Memory session in the Historical Jesus section at SBL, I know want to
highlight why it was a “blow up” and offer my interpretation of the ensuing
audience interaction. After a round of strong papers, each presenter was given
the opportunity to respond in the same order as originally delivered.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Keith primarily answered Paul Foster in his rejoinder.
The reason for Keith’s response was that Foster gave what I think was an
awfully uncharitable dismissal of Keith on account of a blog response to an article
Foster wrote arguing that memory studies are a “dead end” for historical Jesus
research (<a href="http://historicaljesusresearch.blogspot.com/2013/02/paul-fosters-provocative-jshj.html#more" target="_blank">Keith’s blog post is available here</a>). Foster made it sound as though
Keith’s well-founded criticisms were childish and petty. Keith protested the
fact that Foster’s article argues against memory studies as employed by Richard
Bauckham, but ignore his own more nuanced approach, as well as that of Anthony
Le Donne and Rafael Rodr<span>í</span>guez.
In his SBL paper Foster essentially described Keith as whining that his work was not paid
sufficient attention when Keith <i>et al</i> did not merit attention because
according to Foster, their work is not really historical Jesus research.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I thought Keith’s response was incredibly gracious, saying
that while he also has qualms with Bauckham’s use of memory theory he maintains
that his work is historical Jesus research. There was a palpable sense of “Oh
no he didn’t” in the audience when Foster jibed Keith, but I thought Keith’s
response was irenic. In general, I thought Foster failed to engage in the
argument made by Keith, Le Donne and Rodr<span>í</span>guez and Allison, among others. It seems to me that
Foster wants to continue to operate historical Jesus studies by the criteria
approach. It made me wonder if he has read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Criteria-Demise-Authenticity-Chris/dp/0567377237/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385851446&sr=1-1&keywords=jesus+criteria+and+the+demise+of+authenticity" target="_blank"><i>Jesus, Criteria and the Demise ofAuthenticity</i></a>. If he has, what would he say in response? Is there a review in order? </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I don’t remember Crook’s response particularly well (!), but
it was clear that he did not think he was correctly understood. In fact, I vividly
recall one point during the Q & A, when Crook slammed his hands on the
table, jumped up and exasperatedly exclaimed, “If that’s what you think I’m
saying, then I’m not being heard!” In a comment he made in the previous post,
it became clearer to me what he was saying. He sees the work of Keith, Le Donne
and others (in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Criteria-Demise-Authenticity-Chris/dp/0567377237/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385851446&sr=1-1&keywords=jesus+criteria+and+the+demise+of+authenticity" target="_blank"><i>Jesus, Criteria and the Demise of Authenticity</i></a>) as
definitive for making the Quest for the historical Jesus impossible. He believes,
however, that it is still possible to study the way Jesus was remembered. He is
simply convinced that there can be no confidence in memories about Jesus as more
authentic/historical than others.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Crook’s argument did not convince me because it seemed that
he was drawing on a different kind of research and that his epistemological
assumptions were too strict to make any historical claims. I was a bit
surprised to see Crook drawing primarily from an essay by Baumeister and
Hastings published in 1997. Perhaps the article is seminal, but it would seem
that research in collective memory has become more nuanced in the last fifteen
years. Also, Crook often referred to memory studies that occur in laboratories,
but it would seem that these individual studies in memory would have limited value for
collective memory theory. One example that interested me was Crook’s recognition
that while there are numerous stories circulating about Ned Ludd, he never
existed. But, how can such a historical judgment be made? Just because false
memories circulate and can be planted in individuals does not mean that we cannot come to some fairly conclusive
historical judgments. Surely Crook is correct to see that memory theory ought
to temper and nuance the way historical judgments are made, but does that mean they cannot
be made at all?</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Perhaps I’m not giving Crook his due. I wanted to ask more
questions, but the audience was jumping to ask questions and I didn't get a chance. Unfortunately, some of the comments occasionally
deteriorated into lengthy pontifications from the audience, but I think that speaks to how strong the reactions to the session were. I cannot emphasize enough how fantastic session this was. If you're interested in more, check out Chris Keith's reflections and the ensuing debate in
the comments over at <a href="http://historicaljesusresearch.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-sbl-memory-and-historical-jesus.html?spref=fb" target="_blank"><i>Jesus Blog</i></a>.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-23055959790212201782013-11-27T16:27:00.000-06:002013-11-27T16:29:17.668-06:00The Blow up in Baltimore (Part 1 - Summary)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:AllowPNG/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]--><br />
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves/>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:DoNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>HE</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
<w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/>
<w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/>
<w:OverrideTableStyleHps/>
</w:Compatibility>
<m:mathPr>
<m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/>
<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
<m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/>
<m:smallFrac m:val="off"/>
<m:dispDef/>
<m:lMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:rMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/>
<m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/>
<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
</m:mathPr></w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="false"
DefSemiHidden="false" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"
LatentStyleCount="371">
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footnote text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="header"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footer"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="35" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="caption"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="table of figures"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="envelope address"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="envelope return"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footnote reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="line number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="page number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="endnote reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="endnote text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="table of authorities"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="macro"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="toa heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="10" QFormat="true" Name="Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Closing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Signature"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="Default Paragraph Font"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Message Header"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="11" QFormat="true" Name="Subtitle"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Salutation"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Date"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text First Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text First Indent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Note Heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Block Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Hyperlink"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="FollowedHyperlink"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="22" QFormat="true" Name="Strong"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="20" QFormat="true" Name="Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Document Map"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Plain Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="E-mail Signature"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Top of Form"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Bottom of Form"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal (Web)"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Acronym"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Address"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Cite"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Code"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Definition"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Keyboard"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Preformatted"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Sample"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Typewriter"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Variable"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal Table"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation subject"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="No List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Contemporary"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Elegant"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Professional"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Subtle 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Subtle 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Balloon Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="Table Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Theme"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" Name="Placeholder Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" QFormat="true" Name="No Spacing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" Name="Revision"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="34" QFormat="true"
Name="List Paragraph"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="29" QFormat="true" Name="Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="30" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="19" QFormat="true"
Name="Subtle Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="21" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="31" QFormat="true"
Name="Subtle Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="32" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="Bibliography"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="41" Name="Plain Table 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="42" Name="Plain Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="43" Name="Plain Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="44" Name="Plain Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="45" Name="Plain Table 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="40" Name="Grid Table Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46" Name="Grid Table 1 Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51" Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52" Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46" Name="List Table 1 Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51" Name="List Table 6 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52" Name="List Table 7 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 6"/>
</w:LatentStyles>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>
<style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin-top:0in;
mso-para-margin-right:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt;
mso-para-margin-left:0in;
line-height:107%;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;}
</style>
<![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For me, the highlight session of this year’s SBL was in the Historical
Jesus section devoted to social memory theory. While I’m not particularly
interested in Historical Jesus (HJ) studies as a scholarly discipline, I am
interested in social memory theory and its application to biblical studies.
Also, if for no other reason than the fact that I’m a Christian I am interested
in Jesus. Before offering a brief description of the four papers delivered and
the ensuing discussion, I’ll first provide a little background to the debate. For those who are already somewhat familiar with the recent debate about social memory theory in HJ studies might
prefer to skip the next paragraph and get right to my summaries of the papers. </span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />Although the relevant history goes back further, I begin
with the book edited by Chris Keith and Anthony Le Donne, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Criteria-Demise-Authenticity-Chris/dp/0567377237/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1385576754&sr=8-1&keywords=jesus+criteria+and+the+demise+of+authenticity" target="_blank"><i>Jesus, Criteria and the Demise of Authenticity</i></a>. In this compilation of essays released in
August of 2012, Keith and Le Donne put the nail in the coffin of HJ studies based
on the criteria approach, whereby scholars use a set of criteria for discerning
how authentically historical a particular action or saying is. In February of
2013, Paul Foster published an article in <i>Journal for the Study of the
Historical Jesus</i> provocatively titled: “Memory, Orality, and the Fourth Gospel:
Three Dead-Ends in Historical Jesus Research”! Foster argues that “memory
studies” offer no “significant advance in accessing the 'historical Jesus', as
that term is usually understood.” Le Donne <a href="http://historicaljesusresearch.blogspot.com/2013/02/paul-foster-calls-three-recent-advances.html" target="_blank">announced the publication of thearticle</a> and soon after Keith offered a <a href="http://historicaljesusresearch.blogspot.com/2013/02/paul-fosters-provocative-jshj.html#more" target="_blank">brief response to Foster</a> on their co-authored
<i>Jesus Blog</i>. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first paper, “The Past Approaching and Approaching the
Past: The Contribution of Memory Studies to Historical Jesus Research” delivered
by Chris Keith, was aimed at describing the value of social memory theory as a tool
for HJ research. He addressed four issues to which social memory theory is relevant (1. Transmission of Oral tradition, 2. Criteria
of Authenticity, 3. New Historiography and 4. Historical Reliability of the Gospel
tradition). Keith showed, I think convincingly, that social memory theory
requires recognizing that HJ research cannot practice business as usual because
social memory theory provides a more accurate description of the way history
works, but it does not do the work of the historian. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The second paper, “Memory Distortion and the Historical
Jesus” read by Zeba Crook made the provocative argument that memory studies
make HJ research impossible! Crook’s argument is that memory studies show us
not how to <i>refine</i> an approach to HJ research but rather <i>destroys</i>
any attempt to do so. Crook’s paper was punctuated by a
helpful, and at times hilarious, power-point. Needless to say, Crook’s bold
thesis was the most controversial prompting disagreement from just about everyone.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The third paper, “An Uneasy Concord: Memory and History in
Contemporary Jesus Research,” given by Rafael Rodríguez argues that social memory theory provides a
more accurate description of what the gospels actually are, and so are more
suitable for doing HJ research than the previous criteria approach. The two major payoffs for HJ research are that
(1) events/sayings cannot be removed from their narrative contexts in order to
be evaluated for their historicity and (2) any evaluation of history must
account for the production and reception of the narratives as they are. Rodríguez offered a helpful example in showing the relationship between John the Baptist and Jesus in Matthew's gospel. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
The last paper, “Memory: Help or Hindrance in
Historical Jesus Research?” was given by Paul Foster. His essay was by far the most narrow in focus, arguing primarily against Richard Bauckham’s use of memory theory for judging
large portions of the gospel tradition as historically reliable. In general, however, Foster
sees memory study practiced by Le Donne, Keith and Rodríguez as a categorical error when employed for HJ research. Foster considers memory theory a helpful way to trace the history of tradition, but not useful for making judgments about the historical Jesus.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-49635607828446114022013-11-26T14:39:00.000-06:002013-11-26T14:39:17.294-06:00SBL Purchases<span style="font-size: large;">Every scholar and theologian I know loves the famous Erasmus quote, "When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes." Except <a href="http://historicaljesusresearch.blogspot.com/search?q=chris+keith" target="_blank">Chris Keith</a>, he loves his clothes. Is he the best dressed historical Jesus scholar?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">One of the highlights of SBL is always the massive book display. Some of the prices are no better than Amazon, but there are deals to be found. Here's what I bought this year:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143039512/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0143039512&linkCode=as2&tag=ahumbleattemp-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0143039512&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=ahumbleattemp-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=ahumbleattemp-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0143039512" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
<span style="font-size: large;">A popular translation of Augy's <i>Confessions </i>from penguin for only $5! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9042918101/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=9042918101&linkCode=as2&tag=ahumbleattemp-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=9042918101&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=ahumbleattemp-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=ahumbleattemp-20&l=as2&o=1&a=9042918101" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
<span style="font-size: large;">An introduction to Sahadic Coptic for $18</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9004170383/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=9004170383&linkCode=as2&tag=ahumbleattemp-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=9004170383&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=ahumbleattemp-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=ahumbleattemp-20&l=as2&o=1&a=9004170383" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
<span style="font-size: large;">An intriguing anthology of essays: <i>A Companion to Second-Century Christian 'Heretics' </i>for $20<i><br /></i></span><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0567626008/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0567626008&linkCode=as2&tag=ahumbleattemp-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0567626008&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=ahumbleattemp-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=ahumbleattemp-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0567626008" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
<span style="font-size: large;">Rafael Rodriguez's new guide for those of us perplexed by <i>Oral Tradition and the New Testament </i>$18<i><br /></i></span><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801048710/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0801048710&linkCode=as2&tag=ahumbleattemp-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0801048710&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=ahumbleattemp-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=ahumbleattemp-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0801048710" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
<span style="font-size: large;">Stanley Porter's new introductory book on text criticism that goes after Ehrman, <i>How we Got the New Testament </i>$13</span><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9004117938/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=9004117938&linkCode=as2&tag=ahumbleattemp-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=9004117938&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=ahumbleattemp-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=ahumbleattemp-20&l=as2&o=1&a=9004117938" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
<span style="font-size: large;">Steve Mason's Commentary on Josephus's <i>Life</i> $20 <i> </i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1602588228/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1602588228&linkCode=as2&tag=ahumbleattemp-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1602588228&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=ahumbleattemp-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=ahumbleattemp-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1602588228" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
<span style="font-size: large;">Wayne Choppins' much anticipated translation of Jens Schröter's <i>Von Jesu</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>s zum Neuen Testament</i>, released by Baylor as <i>From Jesus to the New Testament: Early Christian Theology and the Origin of the New Testament Canon </i>$40</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1589837797/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1589837797&linkCode=as2&tag=ahumbleattemp-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1589837797&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=ahumbleattemp-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=ahumbleattemp-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1589837797" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
<span style="font-size: large;">A fantastic new monograph from a younger scholar, Ryan S. Schellenberg<i>, Rethinking Paul's Rhetorical Education: Comparative Rhetoric and 2 Corinthians 10-13</i> $32</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The books with Bigger pictures are the ones I'm most excited to read. Be jealous. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-4798725701931885652013-10-15T14:49:00.000-06:002013-10-15T14:49:03.908-06:00Job Opening at Marquette University<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img class="rg_i" data-sz="f" height="239" name="CzFPGU_OAcALJM:" src="data:image/jpeg;base64,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" style="height: 169px; margin-left: -7px; margin-right: -7px; margin-top: 0px; width: 282px;" width="400" /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A new job posting has just recently appeared on the SBL Employment Services website. It reads as follows:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Marquette University Department of Theology invites applications for a
tenure-track position in New Testament studies at the rank of Assistant
Professor to begin August, 2014. Required area of research
specialization is Pauline literature. Candidates must have the PhD in
hand by the first semester of employment. Primary training must include
historical-critical methodologies and expertise in Hellenistic Greek.
Teaching experience desirable; research scholarship and publication
plans required. Responsibilities include general introductory courses in
theology at the undergraduate level and specialized courses at the
graduate level. Candidates must support the Catholic and Jesuit ideals
and mission of the University. Minorities and women strongly encouraged
to apply. Review of applications will begin November 25 and continue
until position is filled. Applications, including letter of application,
c.v., non official transcripts, and writing sample must be received
electronically: <a class="ext" href="http://employment.marquette.edu/postings/2121" target="_blank">http://employment.marquette.edu/postings/2121</a><span class="ext"></span> .
Official transcripts required at time of on-campus interview. Send
letters of recommendation to Dr. Susan K. Wood, SCL, Chairperson,
Department of Theology, Marquette University, 100 Coughlin Hall, P. O.
Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881. EOE/AA.</span></span></blockquote>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The link to Marquette's website is not up yet, but this is undoubtedly a fantastic job opportunity. Speaking from first hand experience, the scholarly community at Marquette is uniquely rigorous, encouraging, and interdisciplinary. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Spread the word.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-27520829949145645442013-09-22T07:59:00.000-06:002013-09-22T07:59:17.170-06:00Preview of Wright's Tome on Paul<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://store.fortresspress.com/media/images/productsh/9780800626839.jpgh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://store.fortresspress.com/media/images/productsh/9780800626839.jpgh.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">N. T. Wright's much anticipated book on Paul, the fourth volume of his Christian Origins and the Question of God Series is scheduled to be released November 1st. Over at Fortress Press, a preview of <i><a href="http://store.fortresspress.com/store/product/18495/Paul-and-the-Faithfulness-of-God-Volume-4" target="_blank">Paul and the Faithfulness of God</a> </i>has been made available for free.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The free excerpts include:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.augsburgfortress.org/media/downloads/9780800626839Contents.pdf" target="_blank">Table of Contents</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.augsburgfortress.org/media/downloads/9780800626839Preface2.pdf" target="_blank">Preface</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.augsburgfortress.org/media/downloads/9780800626839Chapter1.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter 1 - Return of the Runaway?</a></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I for one cannot wait to get my hands on Wright's book.<i> </i>Has there been a more anticipated book in biblical studies?</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-35061527275940467902013-09-03T10:59:00.003-06:002013-09-03T10:59:49.770-06:00Software: The Death of Memory?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:AllowPNG/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]--><br />
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves/>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:DoNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>HE</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
<w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/>
<w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/>
<w:OverrideTableStyleHps/>
</w:Compatibility>
<m:mathPr>
<m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/>
<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
<m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/>
<m:smallFrac m:val="off"/>
<m:dispDef/>
<m:lMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:rMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/>
<m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/>
<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
</m:mathPr></w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="false"
DefSemiHidden="false" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"
LatentStyleCount="371">
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="heading 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="toc 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footnote text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="header"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footer"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="index heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="35" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="caption"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="table of figures"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="envelope address"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="envelope return"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="footnote reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="line number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="page number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="endnote reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="endnote text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="table of authorities"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="macro"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="toa heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Bullet 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Number 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="10" QFormat="true" Name="Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Closing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Signature"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="Default Paragraph Font"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="List Continue 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Message Header"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="11" QFormat="true" Name="Subtitle"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Salutation"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Date"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text First Indent"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text First Indent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Note Heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Body Text Indent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Block Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Hyperlink"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="FollowedHyperlink"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="22" QFormat="true" Name="Strong"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="20" QFormat="true" Name="Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Document Map"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Plain Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="E-mail Signature"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Top of Form"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Bottom of Form"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal (Web)"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Acronym"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Address"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Cite"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Code"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Definition"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Keyboard"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Preformatted"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Sample"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Typewriter"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="HTML Variable"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Normal Table"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="annotation subject"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="No List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Outline List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Simple 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Classic 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Colorful 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Columns 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Grid 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table List 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table 3D effects 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Contemporary"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Elegant"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Professional"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Subtle 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Subtle 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Web 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Balloon Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="Table Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" UnhideWhenUsed="true"
Name="Table Theme"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" Name="Placeholder Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" QFormat="true" Name="No Spacing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" SemiHidden="true" Name="Revision"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="34" QFormat="true"
Name="List Paragraph"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="29" QFormat="true" Name="Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="30" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" Name="Light Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" Name="Light List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" Name="Light Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" Name="Dark List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" Name="Colorful List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="19" QFormat="true"
Name="Subtle Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="21" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="31" QFormat="true"
Name="Subtle Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="32" QFormat="true"
Name="Intense Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" Name="Bibliography"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" SemiHidden="true"
UnhideWhenUsed="true" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="41" Name="Plain Table 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="42" Name="Plain Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="43" Name="Plain Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="44" Name="Plain Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="45" Name="Plain Table 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="40" Name="Grid Table Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46" Name="Grid Table 1 Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51" Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52" Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="Grid Table 1 Light Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="Grid Table 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="Grid Table 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="Grid Table 4 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="Grid Table 5 Dark Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="Grid Table 6 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="Grid Table 7 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46" Name="List Table 1 Light"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51" Name="List Table 6 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52" Name="List Table 7 Colorful"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="46"
Name="List Table 1 Light Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="47" Name="List Table 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="48" Name="List Table 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="49" Name="List Table 4 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="50" Name="List Table 5 Dark Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="51"
Name="List Table 6 Colorful Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="52"
Name="List Table 7 Colorful Accent 6"/>
</w:LatentStyles>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>
<style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin-top:0in;
mso-para-margin-right:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt;
mso-para-margin-left:0in;
line-height:107%;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
<a href="http://wondergressive.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Neocortex-and-Memory.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="http://wondergressive.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Neocortex-and-Memory.jpg" border="0" class="decoded" height="132" src="http://wondergressive.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Neocortex-and-Memory.jpg" title="" width="200" /></a> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Last week my Catholic historical theology professor quipped,
“Ten years ago I could tell who was Protestant and who was Catholic sitting in my classes because the
Protestants knew their Bible. Now I can tell by who has the best Bible
Software.”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I use and benefit from my Bible Software daily, but that’s
no excuse for neglecting regular and repeated reading and memorization of Scripture.
The sad truth is that Bible Software has made students dependent on their machines
rather than their memory for knowing and accessing the scriptures with speed
and accuracy. This reminds me of Plato’s famous criticism of books as a means
of destroying memory.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">One of my seminary professors was fond of citing
Luther’s encouragement to his students, “Read scripture regularly and repeatedly
until you become a fit concordance.” I could not find the source of the quote,
but his point stands. I am no Luddite and I have no illusions that Bible
software is going away. What, if anything, can be done to encourage students to know the
scriptures by heart rather than simply relying on computers to access them quickly? Or is this not really that important? Am I just old-fashioned? What is lost when memory gives way to software?</span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-17747275368590247252013-08-23T21:04:00.002-06:002013-08-23T21:05:15.983-06:00Violence in Defense of Justice<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Studying for an exam as I begin my PhD studies I came across a quotation that I had to share.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Richard Hays, one of the premier biblical scholars in the world</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">, attempts to explain how the Bible can function as a resource for
ethics in his book <i>Moral Vision of the New Testament</i>. As a case study, Hays asks, “Is
it ever God’s will for Christians to employ violence in defense of justice?” </span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In an excellent chapter arguing that it is not God's will for Christians use violence in defense of justice Hays
quotes the words of Father George Zabelka, the Catholic priest who administered
mass to the pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. These are the words of Zabelka years later: </span></span></div>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">To fail to speak to the utter moral corruption
of the mass destruction of civilians was to fail as a Christian and as a priest
as I see it. [. . .] Catholics dropped the A-bomb on top of the largest and
first Catholic city in Japan. One would have thought that I, as a Catholic
priest, would have spoken out against the atomic bombing of nuns. (Three orders
of Catholic sisters were destroyed in Nagasaki that day.) One would have
thought that I would have suggested that as a minimal standard of Catholic
morality, Catholics shouldn’t bomb Catholic children. I didn’t. I [. . .] was
heir to a Christianity that had for seventeen hundred years engaged in revenge,
murder, torture, the pursuit of power, and prerogative violence, all in the name
of our Lord.</span></span></blockquote>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-18949813831143085252013-05-20T22:22:00.000-06:002013-05-22T08:40:57.926-06:00What makes God good in a world of tornadoes?<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This morning I read an old book by a theologian who has been dead for thousands of years and titled the post "<a href="http://ahabhuman.blogspot.com/2013/05/what-makes-god-good.html" target="_blank">What makes God good?</a>" The post describes how ancient Christians thought long and hard about how to affirm God's goodness in a world where suffering is real and terrible. It also highlights the danger of ill-formed answers to difficult questions. I ended the post with the question that originally caught my attention while reading the ancient theologian's words, "What makes God good?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Roughly four hours after I published the post I was alerted to the massive Tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma this afternoon, killing 51 people and injuring at least an additional 120. CNN is reporting that 20 or more of those killed were children. The Tornado comes just shy of the two year anniversary of the May 22, 2011 Joplin Tornado. The horrific effects of which <a href="http://ahabhuman.blogspot.com/2011/05/joplin-relief-work-just-beginning.html" target="_blank">I witnessed firsthand</a>. These natural disasters are keen reminders that asking the question, "What makes God good?" is much more than an academic exercise. When tornadoes churn death, tragedies kill, and diseases devastate, theological arguments often sound petty, detached, and even blasphemous. The words of a brilliant, long-dead theologian seem like hair-splitting minutia, lifeless and empty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cmsimg.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=D2&Date=20130520&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=130520027&Ref=AR&MaxW=300&Border=0&Death-toll-expected-rise-Oklahoma-City-area-tornado-least-51-people-killed" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://cmsimg.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=D2&Date=20130520&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=130520027&Ref=AR&MaxW=300&Border=0&Death-toll-expected-rise-Oklahoma-City-area-tornado-least-51-people-killed" width="278" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A boy rescued from beneath at collapsed wall<br />
at the elementary school in Moore, OK where<br />
the EF4 tornado hit 5/20/2013<br />
(AP Photo by Sue Ogrocki)<br />
Found <a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/viewart/20130520/NEWS/130520027/Death-toll-expected-rise-Oklahoma-City-area-tornado-least-51-people-killed" target="_blank">here</a>.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A wise and honest friend commented on a link to my earlier post:</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"I think that when sweet children get killed by violent storms people are looking for answers and not questions."</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I once drove to the door of parents morning the inexplicable death of their child. I hoped and prayed every second of that drive that God would give me answers for them. When the door swung open we embraced and prayed together. I had no answers to why their daughter was dead. I had no logical explanation that would make the pain go away. I still don't. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But the Christian God is not aloof from our suffering. He is not distant or ignorant or uncaring. I do not believe that God orchestrates all suffering to teach us a lesson or to work a mysterious plan that cannot be understood by the human mind. I think, rather, that God is just as appalled by evil as anyone. In fact, I think he's more appalled by it, he's righteously appalled. He hates it with a perfect hatred. He hates sin and death so much that he has gone to great lengths to rescue the world from it. This is the Christian answer to the problem of evil-- the cross and resurrection. Christians believe that the world is not as it should be and at the same time we believe that God has decisively acted to rescue us from the evil of the world. Now he has called and commissioned us to participate in his new creation. In this new creation the old order of things has passed away, and God wipes every tear from our eyes, and there is no more death, or mourning, or crying, or pain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We believe that one day our perishable bodies will be raised and clothed in immortality and we will shout:</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Death is swallowed up in victory! Where, O Death, is your victory? Where o death is your sting? (1 Cor 15:54-55)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On days like today we feel the sting of death. But we trust that God will condemn sin, suffering, and death, fully and finally at the resurrection.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So what do we do until then? </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We do the work of people who believe that God created the whole world and is at work redeeming it through his church. We pray, we serve, we rebuild, we wait for resurrection with a joyful resilience because we have caught a glimpse of how the story ends. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://media.naplesnews.com/media/img/photos/2013/05/20/Severe_Weather.JPEG-0c450_t607.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://media.naplesnews.com/media/img/photos/2013/05/20/Severe_Weather.JPEG-0c450_t607.JPG" width="272" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teacher embraces a child at an elementary<br />
hit by the Tornado on 5/20/2013.<br />
(AP photo by Paul Hellstern)<br />
Found <a href="http://www.naplesnews.com/photos/galleries/2013/may/20/devastation-and-death-indescribable-moore-ok-torna/273427/" target="_blank">here</a>.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">After a lengthy description of resurrection hope, St. Paul encourages:</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Be steadfast, immovable, always overflowing in the work of the Lord knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain (1 Cor 15:48).</span></blockquote>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-87695717365968418452013-05-20T14:52:00.002-06:002013-05-20T14:52:46.564-06:00What makes God good?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/741/000071528/tertullian1-sized.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.nndb.com/people/741/000071528/tertullian1-sized.jpg" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Whether someone believes in a creator, as Christians do, or he is an atheist, evil is a glaring philosophical problem. It confronts the believer with doubts about the goodness of a god who could make a world filled with starving children. Likewise, suffering confronts the atheist with questions about how to define “evil” and how to confront it.<br /><br />The earliest Christians were not oblivious to the problem of affirming the goodness of a creator and the constant reality of suffering and evil. They wrestled with the difficulty and purposed a number of responses. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">One response, proposed most famously by Marcion, argued that the god who created the world was to blame for evil but the heavenly father of Jesus released believers from captivity to the trappings of material things turning them instead to the spiritual. This proposal, if I can oversimplify, says, “There is a god responsible for creating evil, he’s the god of the Jews found in the Jewish Scriptures. But that’s not the god we worship in Jesus. In fact, Jesus came to set us free from captivity to that evil god and to worship his loving, kind heavenly father.” </span><div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Tertullian, t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">he father of Latin theology pictured above,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> argued that in his attempt to find a good, kind, loving god, Marcion invented a god that is really no good at all. In his response, Tertullian created a rubric for measuring the goodness of a god (Against Marcion 1.22–25). </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">According to Tertullian, a good god must be eternal, rational, and perfect. Each attribute is aimed as an attack on Marcion’s theology.</span></div>
<div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />Marcion’s solution to the problem of evil was to blame it on the creator thus absolving the heavenly father. But, Tertullian argued that a truly good god could not just arrive on the cosmic scene after creation. From a good God “we shall expect goodness to be perennial and ever-flowing, [. . .] being stored up in readiness with the treasuries of his natural attribute” (Against Marcion 1.22). If a god is truly good, then that goodness has to be on display from the very beginning of time. Otherwise he is only good on a whim, and that’s not really good. If Marcion's god is good, then, where was he when the evil creator did his creative work? Why didn’t he stop it? Why did he wait so long to provide a solution? For a god to be truly good, he has to be eternal. <br /><br />Marcion’s redeemer releases humans from fleshy living in order to become truly spiritual and non-physical. This kind of salvation is inadequate, according to Tertullian because such a god fails to rescue humanity and settles for an escape from their created existence. Tertullian mocks: </span><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“I should reckon no man more presumptuous than the one who in one God’s water is baptized for another god, who towards one God’s sky spreads out his hands to a different god, bows down upon one God’s soil to a god whose soil it is not, over one God’s bread give celebrates thanksgiving to another.” (<i>Against Marcion,</i> 1.23)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">His point is that Marcion’s god is irrational because he fails to redeem humanity and instead offers an escape from the creator god. Such a salvation does not make sense. For Tertullian, a good god must be rational. <br /><br />Lastly, a good god must be perfect. Similar to the previous critique, Tertullian is referring to a perfect salvation. A salvation of the soul is imperfect, because humans are not just souls. We have bodies, flesh and blood, and so for us to be rescued our bodies must also be saved by a good god. A god that can only save part of us is not a perfect and thus not a good god. <br /><br />What do you think it means for a god to be “good”? </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This is a crucial question for thinking through the problem of evil. If a “good” god acts like us, is he really good? Or is he just what we want?</span></div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-24890421224136016362013-05-17T09:09:00.000-06:002013-05-22T08:44:25.655-06:00Stoicism and Colossians<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Reading through Colossians closely and grading the exegetical papers for my Advanced Greek Course, I've been struck by the similarities between Colossians and Stoicism.</span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBLS_miMgOerwYrYl4TfQhyXn60vadLQTPPBGz9NUGbxW0siSi" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBLS_miMgOerwYrYl4TfQhyXn60vadLQTPPBGz9NUGbxW0siSi" /></span></a></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">(the bust to the left is of Epictetus, one of my favorite Stoics and a close contemporary of Paul)</span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I know there has been a lot of work on Paul and Stoicism from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Stoics-Troels-Engberg-Pedersen/dp/066422234X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368802655&sr=8-1&keywords=Paul+and+the+stoics" target="_blank">Troels Engberg-Pederson</a> and a few other monographs comparing Stoic thought to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Roman-Christianity-Stoicism-Comparative-Morality/dp/0199578648/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1368802749&sr=8-2&keywords=stoicism+in+romans" target="_blank">Romans </a>and the "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stoics-Society-Testament-Studies-Monograph/dp/0521091438/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1368802655&sr=8-2&keywords=Paul+and+the+stoics" target="_blank">Body of Christ</a>" metaphor. But I've yet to see anything that explicitly compares and contrasts Colossians to early/middle Stoic literature.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It would seem to me that Colossians would be a very helpful point of comparison. Does anyone know of work or a person comparing the two? I'm pretty ignorant of Colossians scholarship since it's never been a major research interest of mine, so perhaps I'm just really late to a party that's already over, but I thought I would check.</span></div>
</div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-3335506061090997432013-05-02T12:08:00.000-06:002013-05-02T12:09:52.637-06:00Meeting in the Air (1 Thess. 4:15-17)<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In preparation to teach on 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18, I read John Chrysostom’s Homily on the passage. There were lots of interesting insights, but I want to point out only one that I think has significant value for contemporary readers.<br /><br />John Chrysostom, for those unfamiliar, is one of great “Doctors of the Church” in the East who lived from around 347–407 CE. He was made Bishop of Constantinople against his will in 398 and worked tirelessly to preach the Scriptures to reform the nominally Christian culture in which he found himself. His most enduring legacy is found in his many sermons and exegetical writings. Thankfully, we have a number of writings on Paul’s letters, including a collection of homilies on 1 Thessalonians.<br /><br />Commenting on 1 Thessalonians 4:15–17, in his eighth homily in 1 Thessalonians, Chrysostom asks an important question: “If he [Christ] is about to descend, for what reason will we be caught up?” Many modern readers fail to ask this question and simply assume that believers “go to heaven.” The imagery here, however, is not of “rapture” (of the <i>Left Behind </i>sort), or final departure to the pie in the sky, but a welcome party for the arrival of Jesus. Chrysostom’s answer to his question about why Jesus comes down and we rise up is quite helpful: </span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“The reason is honor. For when a king enters a city those in honor go out to meet him, but those condemned remain inside for judgment. When a loving father comes, the children, and those worthy to be children, go out on a chariot in order to see and kiss him, but those having offended him remain in the house.”</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The “meeting” that occurs as Jesus comes down and believers go up is a welcome party for Jesus that bestows vindicating honor on the saints. It refers to believers going up to meet Jesus, only to then return to earth for final judgment. <br /><br /> The word “meet” is used in precisely this same way elsewhere in the New Testament. In Acts 28 Paul journeys to Rome to await trial before the Emperor. When Roman Christians hear of Paul’s arrival they leave the city to meet him, with the obvious intention to return with him to Rome. In Jesus’ famous parable of the ten virgins there are five wise virgins who have enough oil in their lamps and five foolish ones who do not. The virgins are waiting to meet the bridegroom only to be taken to the ultimate destination of the wedding banquet. </span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Meeting Jesus in the air is, as Chrysostom points out, a vindication of those who know their king (cf. Josephus, JW 7.100–2). They celebrate his arrival by publicly meeting him on the journey down to welcome and honor him.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-38544365665989962552013-04-01T20:04:00.000-06:002013-04-01T20:04:44.616-06:00Philo of Alexandria on Remembering Moses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.philosophybasics.com/photos/philo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.philosophybasics.com/photos/philo.jpg" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I've recently been thinking a bit about memory theory as applied to historical Jesus studies while I happened to be reading Philo of Alexandria and I came across a passage that has some interesting cross-over. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The passage caught my attention for two reasons. First, Philo is introducing his two-part work "On the Life of Mose<i>s</i>," and is focused on telling the story of the "greatest and most perfect" man (<i>Moses </i>1.1). Second, Philo believes that Moses has been overlooked by educated Greeks as "not worthy of memory" (<i>Moses </i>1.2) so he aims to remedy the situation with his work. Philo's expressed goal is to bring attention to the overlooked wise man of wise men.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here is his description of his sources:</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"I tell the story of Moses as I learned it, both from the sacred books, wonderful monuments of his wisdom which he has left behind, and from some of the elders of the nation. For I always have woven together the things having been spoken with those being read and on account of this I consider the life story to be much more accurate than others." (<i>Moses</i> 1.4)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There a number of fascinating features to this short excerpt. First, Philo expresses his view of the scrolls as "sacred [ἱερῶν]," thus investing higher status to the Pentateuch. Second, the Pentateuch is described as, "wonderful monuments of wisdom." The word for "monument [μνημεῖα]" can be used for a "tomb" or a physical memorial (Lk 11:47), which raises interesting questions about how books functioned as physical memorials. Third, Philo considers himself to have a more accurate account by combining written sources with the oral testimony of elders.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Philo's introduction shows that ancient people valued oral sources for their "histories." Furthermore, it provides some fodder for discussion for how texts functioned alongside oral testimony to provide better stories.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-2716559151461243512013-03-31T05:52:00.000-06:002013-03-31T05:55:53.383-06:00The Good News about Easter - We're NOT going to Heaven<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://lifeondoverbeach.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/resurrection.jpg?w=600" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://lifeondoverbeach.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/resurrection.jpg?w=600" width="259" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">At
least not as our ultimate destination.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately,
most Christians are confused about what scripture teaches about life after
death. Imprecise language in the pulpit and popular worship music isn’t helping
the situation much either. The hymn, “I’ll Fly Away,” is a perfect example of
inaccurate eschatology,<a href="file:///C:/Users/Public/Documents/Blog/Stake/The%20Good%20News%20about%20Easter.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[1]</span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
but most people know it far better than 1 Corinthians 15. Preachers are often
fond of proclaiming their excitement about going to heaven. There is even a
best-selling book describing a young boy’s description of heaven based on his
near-death experience.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Public/Documents/Blog/Stake/The%20Good%20News%20about%20Easter.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[2]</span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
As will become clear below, I’m not trying to discount Christian hope in life
beyond the grave. I’m also not trying to deny that heaven is a place for
believers, but I do want to clarify it in light of what Scripture teaches, "heaven" is not our ultimate destination. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Most
Christians think of heaven as the place you go to be with God forever after
you die. Typically it is thought of as a city in the clouds where
people spend time with God. But this is a terribly <i>incomplete </i>description of what the Bible
teaches about life after death. It is a description of eschatology that ignores
the significance of Jesus’ resurrection as the foundation of Christian hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The early Christians believed that Jesus was
raised from the dead and that eventually they would be too. The Christian hope
is that God will raise believers from the dead when he judges the earth at the
end of time. The early believers did not eagerly desire to “go to heaven.”
Instead, they longed to participate in the resurrection of Jesus. Heaven is
merely a pit stop on the way to a more glorious future – a new earth filled
with God’s presence!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Consider some of these passages:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“<sup>38 </sup>For I have come down
from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. <sup>39 </sup>And
this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has
given me, but raise them up at the last day. <sup>40 </sup>For my Father’s will
is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal
life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John
6.38-40)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In his “bread of
life” sermon Jesus declares that it is God’s plan to raise the dead and Jesus
will participate in raising the dead! This is a bold declaration that
surprisingly will be previewed in the resuscitation of Lazarus in John 11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To the Roman church Paul wrote, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“And if the Spirit of the one who
raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ from the
dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit dwelling
within you.” (Romans 8.11)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Romans 8 is a
masterful description of how our hope in God’s future shapes how we live in the
present. Paul is emphatic that if we are believers then we have the Holy Spirit
(Rom 8.9), which in turn allows us please God—an impossible calling without the
Spirit of God dwelling in us (Rom 8.1-8).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To the Philippians, Paul described his overwhelming desire was:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> “<sup>10 </sup>to know [Christ] and the power of his
resurrection and the sharing in his sufferings, being conformed to his death, <sup>11
</sup>if somehow I might attain to the resurrection from the dead. . . <sup>20 </sup>For
our citizenship is in heaven and from there we eagerly await a Savior – the
Lord Jesus Christ, <sup>21 </sup>who will transform our lowly bodies to the
same form of his glorious body by the energy which enables him to subject all
things to himself.” (Philippians 3.10‒11, 20‒21)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Paul describes
his hope as the resurrection (Phil 3.10) and confirms that it the hope of all
believers to have our bodies transformed (Phil 3.21).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Jesus, speaking to his host a dinner
party said, “<sup>12 </sup>When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite
your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do,
they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. <sup>13 </sup>But when you
give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, <sup>14 </sup>and
you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the
resurrection of the righteous.” (Luke 14.12‒14)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here again, we
see Jesus describing how we live today as relevant for the resurrection!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The hope of
resurrection is pervasive throughout the apostolic preaching (Acts 2.22-32, 36; 3.13-16; 4.33; 5.29-32; 10.39-43; 13.30-39;
17.2-3, 18, 31-32; 23.6-8; 24.14-16, 21; 26.6-8, 23). The most detailed
passage on resurrection is found in 1 Corinthians 15. I would of course suggest
reading the entire passage, but there is only space here to quote portions of
it: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> <sup>14 </sup>And if Christ has not been raised, our
preaching is useless and so is your faith. <sup>15 </sup>And we are then found
to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised
Christ from the dead. [. . .] <sup>17 </sup>And if Christ has not been raised,
your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. <sup>18 </sup>Then those also
who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. <sup>19 </sup>If only for this life
we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men. <sup>20
</sup>But now Christ has indeed been raised from the
dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. <sup>21 </sup>For since
death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a
man. <sup>22 </sup>For as in Adam all die, so in Christ
all will be made alive. <sup>23 </sup>But each in his own turn: Christ, the
firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><sup>35 </sup>But someone may ask, ‘How are the dead raised? With
what kind of body will they come?’ . . . <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As usual, Paul answers his own
question. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It [the body] is
sown perishable, is raised in imperishability; <sup>43 </sup>it is sown in
dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
<sup>44 </sup>it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He goes on, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><sup>51 </sup>Listen, I tell you a mystery: All will
not fall asleep, but all will be changed— <sup>52 </sup>in a flash, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead
will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. <sup>53 </sup>For the
perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with
immortality. <sup>54 </sup>When the perishable has been clothed with the
imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying having been written
will be, “Death has been swallowed up in victory” [Isa 25.8] (1 Corinthians
15:14-15, 17-23, 35, 42-44, 51-54)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Notice the significance of Jesus’
resurrection for Paul. If Christ is not raised, our faith is useless (v 14), we
are lying about God (v 15), we are still dead in our sins (v 17), anyone who
has put hope in Christ believed a stupid lie (v 18) and Christians should be
pitied as fools (v 19). Apparently, there were some Christians in Corinth
suggesting that there is no resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:12-13, 16). Jesus’
resurrection is, according to Paul, the foundation of Christian hope. Not only
does it define what Christians believe happened to Jesus in the past, but it
shapes their hope for the future – resurrection on the
last day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 261.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If
resurrection is something that happens at the return of Jesus, as 1 Corinthians
makes clear, then what happens to believers when they die? According
to the New Testament, when believers die they are in the presence of Christ (2
Cor. 5.8; Phil 1.23; Rev 6.9-11; 7.14-17; 14.13; 20.1-6). Then, at the end of
time, when God judges all of humanity, the righteous will be given new glorious
bodies and the wicked are judged. Resurrection properly describes the stage of
humans receiving new bodies at the final judgment. Until that great day, those
who have “fallen asleep” in death are in the presence of Christ awaiting the
full glory of new bodies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Because he was
raised, we believe we will be raised. Our bodies will be transformed to be like
his. The prayer we learned from Jesus will be answered. God’s kingdom will have
come and his desires will be done on earth as they are in heaven (Matt 6.10).
Finally, John’s vision will be fulfilled,</span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will
live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and
be their God. <sup>4 </sup>He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will
be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has
passed away.” (Rev 21.3-4)</span></blockquote>
<div>
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br clear="all" />
</span><br />
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" />
<!--[endif]-->
<br />
<div id="ftn1">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Public/Documents/Blog/Stake/The%20Good%20News%20about%20Easter.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[1]</span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Eschatology is
broadly defined as “the study of last things.” It comes from two Greek words‒ <i>eschatos</i> and <i>logos</i>. <i>Eschatos</i> means
“end.” It can refer to the last in an order (1 Cor. 15.8), the “last” penny of
a debt (Matt. 5.26) or “end” of the earth as in the “furthest region” (Acts 1.8).
<i>Logos</i> means “word,” “teaching,” or
“study.” The word “Eschatology” did not come into existence until 1844. It was
developed by theologians to try and describe a branch of systematic theology.</span></div>
</div>
<div id="ftn2">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Public/Documents/Blog/Stake/The%20Good%20News%20about%20Easter.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[2]</span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent, <i>Heaven is
for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of his trip to Heaven and Back</i>,
(Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2010).</span></div>
</div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-5805207496218178062013-03-22T10:49:00.001-06:002013-03-22T10:49:21.049-06:00Equity as the Key to Education?<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Everyone in American politics agrees that educational reform is a high priority, or at least necessary on some level, but the means to accomplish such reform is hotly debated. In seeking solutions policy-makers have wisely sought to learn from the success of others. The perennially successful powerhouse of public education in the western world is . . . Finland!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What is the secret to educational success? Competitive school systems? Higher pay for teachers? Elimination of a tenure system that doesn't reward good teaching? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In a fascinating article from <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/" target="_blank">The Atlantic</a>, "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/" target="_blank">What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success</a>," Finnish journalist Anu Partanen observes the surprising source of Finland's educational success is equal access to a quality education for everyone. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">tolle lege</span></i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-88425533328713192322013-03-20T13:24:00.003-06:002013-03-20T13:24:55.967-06:00The Folly of the Cross<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Doing some research for an upcoming sermon on the crucifixion narratives in the gospels I was reminded of this well-known quote from Origen's sparring partner, Celsus, critiquing the folly of Christian confidence in the crucifixion of a carpenter as the means of salvation:</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Now what drunk old woman would not be ashamed to utter such things in a whisper, even when making stories to lull an infant to sleep?" (Contra Celsum, 6.34)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">No doubt, contemporary fascination with the crucifix as a decorative ornament makes it easy to forget that the cross was intended as a torturous, humiliating means of political execution. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-7883594926285862562013-03-19T11:42:00.000-06:002013-03-19T11:42:23.522-06:00homo narrans<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In his celebrated book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/After-Virtue-Study-Theory-Edition/dp/0268035040/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363714857&sr=8-1&keywords=After+Virtue" target="_blank">After Virtue</a></i>, Alisdair MacIntyre writes</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"Man is in his actions and practice, as well as in his fictions, essentially a story-telling animal."</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What story do your actions tell?</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-11402907157076008512013-03-11T21:53:00.001-06:002013-03-11T21:53:40.201-06:00look what came in the mail today <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQWtcvV9oiNmsGegGxsqp8iWs6C_5lfLISJyVftyp76DSMJ9FSVgKV1mICfXJPcRUgHPuHqa9PDLW_sOxYjs_MX9yaMxfrKIIXkT4LZTGrqB5VnispaJ7ioDuAUC6FNPZLaZjnOU9yNG-9/s640/blogger-image--851511641.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQWtcvV9oiNmsGegGxsqp8iWs6C_5lfLISJyVftyp76DSMJ9FSVgKV1mICfXJPcRUgHPuHqa9PDLW_sOxYjs_MX9yaMxfrKIIXkT4LZTGrqB5VnispaJ7ioDuAUC6FNPZLaZjnOU9yNG-9/s640/blogger-image--851511641.jpg" /></a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-76515330515283401032013-02-13T10:39:00.000-06:002013-02-13T10:39:04.533-06:00Reading for Lent <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The good people at Logos Bible Software are offering big sales on some great books for Lent. The two best offers are:</span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.logos.com/product/8779/jesus-and-the-victory-of-god.jpg?771964906640" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.logos.com/product/8779/jesus-and-the-victory-of-god.jpg?771964906640" width="118" /></a></div>
<a href="http://www.logos.com/product/30079/the-death-of-the-messiah-from-gethsemane-to-the-grave.jpg?374541896656" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.logos.com/product/30079/the-death-of-the-messiah-from-gethsemane-to-the-grave.jpg?374541896656" width="132" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">N. T. Wright's </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jesus and the Victory of God</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> is only </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">$17.49</span><br />
<i><br /></i>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Raymond Brown's classic two volume on the passion narratives, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Death of the Messiah </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for $24.97</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Find the link <a href="http://blog.logos.com/2013/02/prepare-for-lent-a-reflection-on-christs-sacrifice/?utm_source=logos4utm_medium=homepagemessage&utm_content=textlink&utm_campaign=lent2013" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-30759512213051058182013-02-05T21:08:00.001-06:002013-02-05T21:09:19.020-06:00NT Scholars Politely Pissing on each others' PlaygroundsDr. Paul Foster, Senior Lecturer of New Testament language, literature, and theology at the University of Edinburgh recently published an article in the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus critiquing the application of social memory theory in historical Jesus studies.<br />
<br />
In response, one of the foremost practitioners of social memory theory, Dr. Chris Keith (Prof. of NT and Early Christianity at St. Mary's College), responds here: <a href="http://historicaljesusresearch.blogspot.com/2013/02/paul-fosters-provocative-jshj.html?spref=bl">The Jesus Blog: Paul Foster’s Provocative JSHJ Article—Chris Keith...</a><br />
<br />
Enjoy.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-68865673469862513902013-01-31T10:31:00.000-06:002013-01-31T10:31:21.423-06:00The Greek of Acts 3.16<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My advanced Greek class is reading through Acts for the first part of this semester and this week we came across and interesting grammatical construction in Acts 3:16 that rekindled my interest in the <i>Pistis Christou </i>debate. I've already blogged about how Ignatius contributes to the debate <a href="http://ahabhuman.blogspot.com/2010/12/pistis-christou-evidence-from-ignatius.html" target="_blank">here </a>and there is a very good anthology of essays devoted to the debate edited by Michael Bird and Preston Sprinkle titled, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Faith-Jesus-Christ-The-Theological/dp/0801045649/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1359645423&sr=8-2&keywords=faith+of+jesus+Christ" target="_blank">The Faith of Jesus Christ</a></i>. I'll return to Bird and Sprinkle's book in a moment, but first check out Acts 3.16:</span><br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ πίστει τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ τοῦτον ὃν θεωρεῖτε καὶ οἴδατε, ἐστερέωσεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἡ πίστις ἡ διʼ αὐτοῦ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ τὴν ὁλοκληρίαν ταύτην ἀπέναντι πάντων ὑμῶν. </span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And by faith of his [Jesus'] name this one [lame man healed] whom you see and already know, his [Jesus'] name strengthened, and the faith, the one through him, gave to him [lame man] this wholeness in the presence of all of you.</span></blockquote>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I am using Mikeal Parsons and Martin Culy's <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Acts-Handbook-Greek-Baylor-Testament/dp/0918954908/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359646703&sr=1-2&keywords=Acts%3A+A+Handbook+on+the+Greek+Text" target="_blank">Acts: A Handbook on the Greek Text </a></i>as a grammatical/syntactical guide for the class. They point out that this "verse is notoriously difficult to decifer" for a number of reasons (p. 57). However, they suggest one possible solution to the odd construction "by faith of his name [τῇ πίστει τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ]" is to read this as a subjective genitive translated "because of the faithfulness of his name." This would mean that instead of highlighting faith in Jesus' name, meaning that the lame man had believed in Jesus and that's what healed him (as implied by the NIV, ESV, NRSV, KJV), the text would be highlighting the power of Jesus' name. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Contextually, the subjective genitive reading suggested by Parsons and Culy appears to be superior. A close reading of the healing narrative indicates that the man never expected to be healed by Peter and John (Acts 3.3-5). Furthermore, it appears that formerly lame man is as surprised as anyone that he's been healed (Acts 3.8) and the emphasis is on the power of Jesus' name (Acts 3.6-7). Certainly there are numerous instances in the gospels where miraculous healings are connected to the faith of those healed (Mt 8.10; 9.2, 22, 29; 15.28; Mk 2.5; 5.34; 10.52;
Lk 5.20; 7.9, 50; 8.48; 17.19; 18.42), but this does not appear to be one of those examples. Unlike these other narratives, there is no indication of faith on the part of the lame man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There is an interesting parallel in Acts 14.8-10, where Paul performs a similar healing. However, in Acts 14.9, the text is explicit that the lame man in Lystra did indeed "have faith to be healed" (Acts 3.9). Perhaps there is a Lukan critique of the lack of faith in Israel contrasted with the faith of gentiles (cf. Luke 4.25-27; 7.9)?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I turned to Bird and Sprinkle's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Faith-Jesus-Christ-The-Theological/dp/0801045649/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1359645423&sr=8-2&keywords=faith+of+jesus+Christ" target="_blank"><i>The Faith of Jesus Christ</i> </a>to see if it makes mention of Acts 3.16, and while it is mentioned, there is very little analysis of the particularities. The lengthiest treatment (a paragraph on p. 137) of the text comes from Mark Seifrid's essay suggesting a genitive of source suggesting that Jesus' is the originator of the faith that then comes to the healed man. Without more explanation on how this resolves the grammatical oddities, I'm not convinced.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For now at least, I think the subjective genitive reading holds the most weight, but I'm certainly open to correction. Unfortunately, I have not yet had a chance to look at any Acts commentaries. Anything I'm missing? Other, more compelling suggestions?</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-69256729805746792222013-01-25T10:51:00.003-06:002013-01-25T10:51:44.951-06:00Jesus QUESTions (part 1)<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.mission68.org/mediafiles/jesus-tough-questions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="http://www.mission68.org/mediafiles/jesus-tough-questions.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">O</span>ne of the best parts of my job is that I get to teach people about Jesus, the Bible, and Christian theology. Earlier this week the Men’s Study group I lead began a new series devoted to the life of Jesus. To begin the series I thought it would be worth asking everyone to submit some questions that they’ve always had but maybe felt uncomfortable asking. Here’s what I asked all the men to do: </span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Take out a pen and write at least three questions you have always wanted to know about Jesus. You can write more than three, but we want everyone to provide at least three questions. Nothing is off limits.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Having just skimmed through some of the questions thus far they range from the very serious to the comical. There are lots of questions about the doctrine of the Trinity, the deity and humanity of Jesus, his childhood, sex life and self-awareness. <br /><br />Today I’ll just list the comical questions: <br /><br />Did Jesus have a beard? </span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/download/130377363/Jesus_Shaves_by_Bigfoot_X.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.deviantart.com/download/130377363/Jesus_Shaves_by_Bigfoot_X.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">What year and vintage was the wine at the wedding feast? </span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiANaOzD0JutJtoBpUG3ZK-9z_uPFg0pf3kTDLbYQjL5BkdYdJuFTXKmOqsrBg5KK5pn2u5A72Ycp6DBg_ElfzSkr-WTveQtMnEQxgtoFIsFsCTEaXhTw_Xm8pV8J4JFh5JHopABPmE-Fk/s1600/cana.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiANaOzD0JutJtoBpUG3ZK-9z_uPFg0pf3kTDLbYQjL5BkdYdJuFTXKmOqsrBg5KK5pn2u5A72Ycp6DBg_ElfzSkr-WTveQtMnEQxgtoFIsFsCTEaXhTw_Xm8pV8J4JFh5JHopABPmE-Fk/s320/cana.jpg" width="241" /></span></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Cubs, Sox or Cardinals?</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.god-answers-prayers.com/god_answers_prayers_gallery/img/jesusbaseball(sm).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.god-answers-prayers.com/god_answers_prayers_gallery/img/jesusbaseball(sm).jpg" width="235" /></span></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I think it is unclear which baseball team Jesus likes but he surely hates the Yankees.</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What are some of the funniest Jesus questions you've ever received or thought?</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">* All the above pictures are courtesy of google images.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.com2