Greek resources and Frederica Matthews-Green
I am waiting for these books to arrive since I ordered them on Saturday (but didn't choose expedited shipping, so I'll likely wait 'til next week):
The Illumined Heart: The Ancient Christian Path of Transformation (Frederica Matthews-Green)
I will readily admit I bought this book due to her using an fictitious 7th century Christian as a narrative device. I have been thinking about asking to lead a book study at our church and I want to look at this and see if it might be suited for that purpose.
Selected pieces from one Amazon reviewer: "Along comes this wonderfully simple gem, "The Illumined Heart," by renowned author and commentator Frederica Mathewes-Green, who gently invites the reader to explore "the ancient Christian path of transformation" in an unthreatening manner. Here Frederica introduces us to a fictitious "Christian of another era, perhaps from the fifth or sixth century, living in the Middle East," called Anna.
By introducing us to Anna, and her family, we catch a glimpse of how Christians of another time and place lived out their faith on a daily basis. While I was a bit leery of how this fictional approach would work, I felt that this woman and her family accurately resembled the historical non-fiction accounts I've read of this era.
This is not a "religious" book in the sense of comparing one tradition or theological viewpoint with another. Instead, the reader begins to see how we in the West have lost contact with our spiritual ancestors, what they believed, and how they lived their daily lives. Here Frederica calls us back to that earlier "Christian worldview," and shows how it worked for them and how it could work for us today."
Learn New Testament Greek (John Dobson)
This is my main Greek class text other than the Greek New Testament (Aland). I feel ambivalent about it. I tend to do best with more traditional texts, i.e. a chart of the declensions I am supposed to memorize from reading the lesson and doing the exercises. This book is highly inductive. Not my cup of tea. I am buying an extra copy because the hardback edition comes with a cd (and I drive a lot and am happy to learn as I drive) and because my dad (something of an amateur linguist) is attempting to help me out and we need two texts since we don't live in the same house any longer. This book has built my vocabulary, but I struggle with the grammatical details.
In addition, I ordered this chart and this chart to provide additional help with grammar.
Still trying to schedule in a trip to Portland to attend vespers at the Antiochian parish! Maybe this is the Saturday...
The Illumined Heart: The Ancient Christian Path of Transformation (Frederica Matthews-Green)
I will readily admit I bought this book due to her using an fictitious 7th century Christian as a narrative device. I have been thinking about asking to lead a book study at our church and I want to look at this and see if it might be suited for that purpose.
Selected pieces from one Amazon reviewer: "Along comes this wonderfully simple gem, "The Illumined Heart," by renowned author and commentator Frederica Mathewes-Green, who gently invites the reader to explore "the ancient Christian path of transformation" in an unthreatening manner. Here Frederica introduces us to a fictitious "Christian of another era, perhaps from the fifth or sixth century, living in the Middle East," called Anna.
By introducing us to Anna, and her family, we catch a glimpse of how Christians of another time and place lived out their faith on a daily basis. While I was a bit leery of how this fictional approach would work, I felt that this woman and her family accurately resembled the historical non-fiction accounts I've read of this era.
This is not a "religious" book in the sense of comparing one tradition or theological viewpoint with another. Instead, the reader begins to see how we in the West have lost contact with our spiritual ancestors, what they believed, and how they lived their daily lives. Here Frederica calls us back to that earlier "Christian worldview," and shows how it worked for them and how it could work for us today."
Learn New Testament Greek (John Dobson)
This is my main Greek class text other than the Greek New Testament (Aland). I feel ambivalent about it. I tend to do best with more traditional texts, i.e. a chart of the declensions I am supposed to memorize from reading the lesson and doing the exercises. This book is highly inductive. Not my cup of tea. I am buying an extra copy because the hardback edition comes with a cd (and I drive a lot and am happy to learn as I drive) and because my dad (something of an amateur linguist) is attempting to help me out and we need two texts since we don't live in the same house any longer. This book has built my vocabulary, but I struggle with the grammatical details.
In addition, I ordered this chart and this chart to provide additional help with grammar.
Still trying to schedule in a trip to Portland to attend vespers at the Antiochian parish! Maybe this is the Saturday...