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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
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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
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Tagged Lenten Discipline, Some topics in theology, Systematic Theology, Systematics, Theology
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Pontius Pilate: A Monologue
A sermon preached on Good Friday, 29 March 2024, at the Anglican Church of St Thomas, Kefalas, Crete The readings were: Isaiah 52:13-53:12 (the Fourth Servant Song); Psalm 22; and John 18:1-19:42 (the Passion according to St John). Centurion: what … Continue reading
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Tagged Good Friday, Pontius Pilate, Pontius Pilate Monolog, Pontius Pilate Monologue
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“For God so loved the world . . .”
A Sermon Preached on The Fourth Sunday of Lent(following the Julian Calendar used to calculate Easter in Greece)April 11, 2021, at 11:00 amfor an Online Service with The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete. The readings were: … Continue reading
The Foolishness of the Commandments
A Sermon Preached on The Third Sunday of Lent (following the Julian Calendar used to calculate Easter in Greece)April 4, 2021, at 11:00 amfor an Online Service with The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete. The readings … Continue reading
An Unsettling Lent
A Sermon Preached on The First Sunday of LentMarch 21, 2021 at 11:00 amfor an Online Service with The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete. The readings used were: Genesis 9:8-17, Psalm 25:1-9, 1 Peter 3:18-22, and … Continue reading
Resources for Mothering Sunday 2021
These are worship resources for Mothering Sunday 2021, held on the Fourth Sunday of Lent. The resources are gathered from a variety of sources and, while assembled mainly for The Anglican Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, on the … Continue reading
The Island Parson 