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• Robert L. Dabney (1820-1896) on the Sufficiency of Christ’s Satisfaction: As Classically Defined

  
  Calvin and Calvinism — Authority: 122
  Dabney:1)Christ as a Priest,must be divine.2d. None but a properly divine being could undertake Christ’s priestly work. Had he been the noblest creature in heaven, his life and powers would have been the property of God, our offended Judge ; and our Advocate could not have claimed, as He does, John x: 18, that He ...
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• Seek Michigan

  
  Michigan Civil War Blog — Authority: 122
  This is a great website run by what used to be HAL, and the central click-it -- Pleasant Peninsula -- features...Civil War manuscripts!
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• Stalin and Public Memory

  
  The Blogora — Authority: 129
  A curious rehabilitation of Uncle Joe is underway in Russia.
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• Deep Thought on Rhetoric

  
  The Blogora — Authority: 129
  "Rhetoric is the greatest barrier between us and our ancestors." Who said this? (first prize is a free annual subscription to the Blogora)
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• The Abbot, or Ironing out History’s Wrinkles

  
  earlyTibet.com — Authority: 92
  Picking through a manuscript collection piece by piece can be painstaking work, but it’s rarely boring. I never cease to be amazed by the mere fact that these ancient things were written, used and reused by very different people who held them in their hands in a very different place and time.  And then there are ...
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• The Perils of Polyglossia

  
  Slawkenbergius's Tales — Authority: 112
  As for what is demanded of a historiographer, different people say different things about that. Some suppose that nothing more is needed than being well-read and having a firm memory, and with that a coherent frame of mind. Others think that it is impossible for someone who hasnt learned all of philosophy to write ...
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• “Most critical scholars” confusing plot setting and character constructs with historical fact

  
  Vridar — Authority: 415
  When discussing the evidence for the historical Jesus in Honest to Jesus Robert Funk writesWhat do we know about this shadowy figure who is depicted in snapshots in more than twenty gospels and gospel fragments that have survived from antiquity? The short answer is that we don’t know a great deal. But there are a ...
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• Civil War vet saves Detroit

  
  Michigan Civil War Blog — Authority: 122
  "Born poor in Maine in 1840, Pingree fought in many brutal battles in the Civil War and was captured and held at Andersonville, the notorious Georgia prison where thousands of Union soldiers died of starvation and neglect. He escaped to fight more battles and was at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia in 1865 when ...
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• Conflict for the Darwinian Dispute

  
  Thinking Matters Talk — Authority: 417
  Charles Darwin (1809–1882) is often portrayed as a believer struggling with doubt, reluctantly yielding to rational thinking in light of the evidence he found while journeying on the HMS Beagle in the Galapagos Islands. Wiker[1] points out that while Darwin’s ideas are well known, much of the story of his life is ...
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• This day in Michigan history

  
  Michigan Civil War Blog — Authority: 122
  This date in Michigan History:   November 26, 1883 Sojourner Truth dies in Battle Creek. Preacher, abolitionist, and womens rights advocate, Sojourner Truth moved to Battle Creek after the Civil War. Born a slave in New York in the late 1790s, Truth became an outspoken orator who captivated ...
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• Grant revisited

  
  Michigan Civil War Blog — Authority: 122
  Finishing the recently published Joan Waugh book on Ulysses S. Grant required a trip back to the C-SPAN 09 survey of presidential leadership to see how it was that Grant moved up so much from the previous judgment. And to see how he is now ranked by historians in the various categories that make up the overall ...
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• Matthew Harmon on Amyraut on ‘General Conditional Election’

  
  Calvin and Calvinism — Authority: 122
  Harmon:Fifth Sermon on Romans 11:33In keeping with the passage that he is expositing, Amyraut’s sermon on Rom 11:33 again sustains a pervasive doxological emphasis. In response to God’s free creation, his general revelation of his patience, and forbearance in nature and providence, and his particular revelation to ...
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• Nine Nations

  
  ???? — Authority: 110
  With Obama in China lots of websites want to say something about China and What It All Means. For example, The Atlantic has a post by Patrick Chovanic that describes the Nine Nations of China , dividing China into nine separate regions, rather than viewing it as a monolithic whole. As Jeremiah Jenne points out this ...
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• Train Reading - S H Roberts the Squatting Age in Australia, 1835-1847

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 471
  I have been reading S H Roberts the Squatting Age in Australia, 1835-1847 (Melbourne, 1935). Roberts (1901-1971) had a quite remarkable career as an academic, university administrator including long serving Vice Chancellor at Sydney University and writer. He was keenly interested in international affairs. ...
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• Historical novels: Somerset Maugham

  
  The Toynbee convector — Authority: 125
  I’m glad he has a good word to say about Moravia. Selina Hastings’s new biography of Maugham has had very good reviews and joins several fascinating predecessors, including the reminiscences by his nephew Robin. iTunes has an album of the old man reading two stories, The Three Fat Women of Antibes (the cover art ...
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• Preyers Blackstone in America

  
  Legal History Blog — Authority: 480
  The Fall 2005 issue of Law and History Review was dedicated to Kathryn T. Preyer (1925-2005), "a distinguished American legal and constitutional historian and professor emerita of history at Wellesley College, where she taught from 1955 until her retirement in 1990." Now Cambridge University Press has further honored ...
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• Boring History

  
  Slawkenbergius's Tales — Authority: 112
  [for the sake of my career, the reader is invited to mentally fill in this space with an appropriate text--or, in case she feels "meta," with the text of the post itself.] Ive spent the last week going to conference panels, where I have tried not to fall asleep, drool, or moan too audibly. Ive gotten a lot of doodling ...
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• Jesus’ Death and the Temple in the Gospel of Mark

  
  The Theological Ramblings of an Anglican Ordinand — Authority: 413
  The Death of Jesus in the Gospel of MarkThe purpose of my last few months of research is to explore, within the narrative of the gospel of Mark, the link between Jesus’ death and the Temple.  This link is clearly to be seen at the surface level of the passion narratives where the  Temple and [...]
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• Honest to Jesus: Robert Funk’s mix of good, contradictory and overlooked “rules of evidence”

  
  Vridar — Authority: 415
  Jesus Seminar co-founder Robert Funk has a lot interesting insights into the gospel texts. But he (along with probably a vast majority of his biblical studies colleagues) also carries a few assumptions that set his historical studies a world apart from the methods of historians of nonbiblical themes.But first the good ...
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• Saturday Morning Musings - Leviathan and the practice of history

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 471
  During the week a colleague gave me John Birminghams Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney to read. Its really well written, she enthused, more like a novel. I had had a stressful morning, and decided to treat myself at lunchtime by sitting down to a proper meal and a good read. Birmingham does indeed ...
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