On the 21st of this month I will have my oral defense here at Western Seminary as the last stage of my Master of Theology (Th.M.) program. It is a two hour event with one hour dedicated to defending my thesis and another hour dedicated to showing I have retained what I learned from various classes. While I don’t expect others to know anything about my thesis, I do think some of you may know a bit about subjects like philosophy, the Gospel and other religions, the so-called “Greek Fathers”, the formation of the biblical canon, the Synoptic Problem, and the New Perspective on Paul. Over the next couple weeks I will be posting a bit on these topics and I’d appreciate any dialogue you can offer me as a “study group” of sorts! Below is my schedule of subjects. Please come around when you see one that interest you!

3/3- Irenaeus of Lyons and Origen of Alexandria as precursors to Eastern Christianity.

3/4- Athanasius of Alexandria

3/5- Basil the Great

3/6- Gregory of Nazianzus

3/7- Gregory of Nyssa

3/8- John Chrysostom

3/9- Cyril of Alexandria

3/10- Maximus the Confessor

3/11- John of Damascus

3/12- Ontology

3/13- Epistemology

3/14- Anthropology

3/15- Morality

3/16- Postmodernity

3/17- The Gospel, soteriology, and other religions

3/18- The formation of the biblical canon

3/19- The New Perspective on Paul

3/20- The Synoptic Problem