Thomas Whitley

Sacred Memory

The following are the remarks from my leadership in chapel at Gardner-Webb University on Monday, 9 November 2009. Our chapel was “Worship Through Psalms of Lament and Thanksgiving. Remembering is tough for me; not remembering facts and history and theories, but remembering people and moments. Maybe I actually mean not that remembering is tough, but that [...]

A Battle You Can Win

Photo by George Eastman House The GRE is at the heart of the preparation process for most who wish to do graduate study. For those of you who don’t know, I typically describe the GRE as the SAT for graduate schools. It’s a test that supposedly measures one’s ability to perform at the graduate level. All I [...]

10 Random Beliefs

It seems as if I am on my way to becoming a bona fide biblioblogger, since I got tagged in a 10 random beliefs meme by Jeremy Thompson. If, on the other side of this list, you’re left thinking that my random beliefs equal non-witty, boring beliefs, I’m pretty sure the problem is with you, [...]

Theology 2.0 – Part 4

I am continuing on with this theology series even though I’m not getting much conversation, which was my goal. I suppose that many of you may really just enjoy reading my words, though I doubt that is the case. I really do want to hear your thoughts in response to my posts. Do not fear [...]

Nothing New Under the Sun

Mark Goodacre has a post up today called The Scholar’s Scalpel in which he shares this quote by Michael Goulder: With a fine enough scalpel, everything is unique. This is a fantastic quote and it comes on the same day as Jim West posts his The Problem With Young Scholars: An Observation, in which he says The problem with [...]

Resources Page Updated

I have updated my resources page. You can visit it by either clicking here or on the Resources tab at the top of the page. If there are any resources that you think should be added to the list, put them in the comments of this post or e-mail me. They do not necessarily have [...]

Theology 2.0 – Part 3

Today we looked at our professors prolegomena. Stated simply, a prolegomena is just the presuppositions of a theologian. They are typically set out at the beginning so that the reader knows ahead of time from which perspective to expect the following theology will come. His prolegomena is as follows: A. Triune God B. As revealed in Scripture C. [...]

15 Books

I was tagged in a note by Jennifer Pluck on Facebook. The rules are that you have to list 15 books that you’ve read and that will always stick with you. I do not usually participate in these “memes” but decided to participate in this one because it is about books, one of the great [...]

Theology 2.0 – Part 2

We have covered a decent amount of ground in my theology class since the first post in this series, but I have not been covering it here because much of it will be revisited later in the semester in more depth and more detail, so I am waiting to address it until later as well. [...]

Theology 2.0 – Part 1

The first Theology 1 class is over and my first assignment is complete. The assignment was to write a diagnostic paper. Here are the directions: Each paper is to be not more than two typed pages, single spaced with a blank line between each paragraph. One paragraph is to be dedicated to each of the following [...]