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O Sola Fide!
Based on a Sermon preached on the Second Sunday after Trinity, 14 June 2026, at the Anglican Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete, Greece (Diocese in Europe | Church of England).The readings used that day were: Romans 5:1-8, … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Romans, Sermons
Tagged Bible, Chronology of the Life of Paul, Fide sola, πίστις Χριστού, Jewish Roots of Christianity, Justification by Faith Alone, New Perspective on Paul, Romans 5, Romans 5.1, The Apostle Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West, Trinity III Year A
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Wittgenstein and Levinas on Language: Part Two, Section B – Analytic Philosophy
This has been one of the harder posts to write because I’ve never really seen myself as an expert on analytic philosophy. It is probably because I am not overly sympathetic to it – while it strongly influenced the course … Continue reading
Posted in Lent, Levinas, Philosophy, Wittgenstein
Tagged Analytic Philosophy, Language Game, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Language
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Geeking Out over the Grammar of πίστις Χριστού
A Sermon preached on The Second Sunday of Lent, 1 March 2026 at The Anglican Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete, Greece. The readings were Genesis 12:1-4a, Psalm 121, Romans 4:1-5, 13-17, & John 3:1-17. This morning, as … Continue reading
Wittgenstein and Levinas on Language: Part Two, Section A
This is a remarkably poorly named blog post, as I will not actually be discussing Wittgenstein and Levinas and their approaches to language until the post after the next one. My previous post was perhaps even more poorly named, as … Continue reading
Posted in Lent, Levinas, Philosophy, Wittgenstein
Tagged 1980s Era Phliosophy, Levinas, Wittgenstein
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Evil is Stupid
A sermon preached on The First Sunday of Lent, 22 February 2026, at The Anglican Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete. The readings were: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7, Psalm 32, Romans 5:12-19 and Matthew 4:1-11. Most of the time … Continue reading
Wittgenstein and Levinas on Language: Part One
Introduction I want to talk a bit about how I find that the philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) seem to say similar things about the nature of human language. The relevance to theology is that humans are … Continue reading
Posted in Lent, Levinas, Philosophy, Random Personal Notes
Tagged Levinas, life, ludwig-wittgenstein, Philosophical training of Bruce Bryant-Scott, Philosophy, Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Philosophy at the University of Toronto in the 1980s, Philosophy in Canada in the 1980s, Wittgenstein, writing
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A Lenten Discipline for 2026
In these forty days from Ash Wednesday to Easter we are invited “to observe a holy Lent by self-examination, penitence, prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, and by reading and meditating on the word of God.” As part of my Lenten discipline … Continue reading
Posted in Lent, Random Theology
Tagged Lenten Discipline, Some topics in theology, Systematic Theology, Systematics, Theology
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Dishonest Wealth and True Riches
A sermon preached on 14 September 2025 at the Anglican Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete, a chaplaincy of the Diocese in Europe, Church of England. The readings were: 1 Timothy 2:1-7, Psalm 113, and Luke 16:1-13. And … Continue reading
You are the Coin in this Scenario
A sermon preached on 14 September 2025 at the Anglican Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete, Greece, a chaplaincy of the Diocese in Europe in the Church of England. The readings were: 1 Timothy 1:12-17, Psalm 51:1-11, and … Continue reading
The Cost of Discipleship
A Sermon preached on the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 18), September 7, 2025, at the Anglican Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete, Greece, a chaplaincy of the Diocese in Europe. The readings were: Philemon 1-25, Psalm 1, … Continue reading
The Island Parson 