Renascentes Musae: The Gospel's Not for Sharing, Blogs Are

05 February, 2010

The Gospel's Not for Sharing, Blogs Are

The Gospel's for proclaiming. But enough silliness.

The point of this post? To invite you, the reader, if you think what Renascentes musae, the blog, is doing is worthwhile, to send a link to this blog (http://renascentesmusae.blogspot.com/) to your favorite armchair theologians, concerned Lutheran laity, and other potentially interested parties. No treasure stored up for you in heaven, I'm sorry to say, but I hope it will be worth your while anyway.

2 comments:

Christian Boehlke said...: I passed it on to 15 friends on facebook and you can too!; Friday, 05 February, 2010
Joseph Abrahamson said...: Good to hear from you, Jon. I'll try to add what I can.; Saturday, 06 February, 2010

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Renascentes Musae (reh-nah-SKEN-tays MOO-sigh). That's right. Reh-nah-SKEN-tays MOO-sigh. "The rebirth of the Muses," or, literally, "the Muses in the process of being re-born." That was Reformation-Era code for the kind of university reform that accompanied the Reformation, a revitalization of higher education that eschewed the scholasticism of the Late Medieval world for a bracing encounter with the classics, the literae humaniores, of both the pagan and Christian world, along with the intellectual tools needed for such study: the ancient languages (classical Greek, classical Latin, and Hebrew), rhetoric & dialectic. This blog is devoted to searching for and articulating a theologically faithful and intellectually responsible rationale for Lutheran higher education on the basis of Wittenberg Christian Humanism and to imagining what renascentes Musae might look like in 21st-century North American confessional Lutheranism. Need we mention it? Opinions expressed by an individual author are not necessarily those of all authors. Not only that--if we can't vouch for one another's opinion--it goes without saying that authors also speak on their own behalf and do not necessarily reflect the views of the institutions that employ them.