About ME!
University of Pennsylvania Grad
Central High School 244th
Married to Sylvia
We live in Philadelphia
Tenth Pres. Church
I work at SIAM
on Cold Fusion apps.
Personal quirks!
Neil Gaiman's The Sandman
My Ebay Auctions
CAPO
James B. Jordan
Reformed theology
SF author Gene Wolfe
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Recommended Eyeball Resters
I enjoy The Sandman, a comic book published by DC, and written by Neil Gaiman. It's very well written and the story is dense with resonances to myth and legend. Annotations for every issue are available. While The Sandman has finished it's run, it is available in trade paperback editions.
Other good comics that I read include
Tales of the Beanworld (see my Beanworld MtG expansion), Tom Strong,
and Cerebus.
I have a whole site about Science Fiction author Gene Wolfe. Check it out, especially my blog news page. I also recommend Cordwainer Smith and Charles Williams for some of the more mind-bending speculative fiction available.
Theological Writings
Some papers I wrote for a seminary class at Philadelphia Theological Seminary (Reformed Episcopal) taught by Ray Sutton are available here. The latter was a paper I did for myself, to give to my session.
Robert Letham writes in The Westminster Assembly (pp. 225-226)
In Protestant scholasticism, long entrenched by the time of Westminster, condescensio was used for God's accommodation of himself to human ways of knowing in order to reveal himself. This was closely related to gratia Dei (the grace of God), the goodness and undeserved favor of God toward man, and to grattia communis (common grace), his nonsaving, universal grace, by which, in his goodness, he lavishes favor on all creation in the blessings of physical sustenance and moral influence for the good [cites Muller's Dictionary]. These are the clearest senses of the terms for the Assembly, for they saw grace as fully compatible with law, not offsetting or limiting it, as in the late medieval notions of congruent and condign grace [sic?].Did he mean 'merit' in that last bit?
