Jeb Ralston
@Jeb_R
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Floridaman in Switzerland. Theology and Church History PhD candidate @UNIGE_en and @TEDS. Fulbright scholar researching Sin, Scripture, & the Reformation. #COYG
Geneva, Switzerland
Joined June 2009
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Trinity is both proud and honored to announce that @Jeb_R has received the #fulbrightscholarship. Jeb is currently working on his PhD at @TEDS
#HigherEducation #Seminary #ChristianHigherEd
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Do everything you can to sustain friendships and cultivate new ones. (It will only get harder in your thirties.)
To all mature men who are 30+, What's one “cheat code” about life most young men ignore?
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"By craving to be more, man becomes less; and by aspiring to be self-sufficing, he fell away from Him who truly suffices. [...] this wicked desire which prompts man to please himself as if he were himself light, and which thus turns him away from the light [..]" Augustine, de Civ
"[On account of original sin] we are raptured into ourselves and our own concerns, and we begin to embrace life and whatever is pleasing in life with our highest love; ultimately, we desire to be blessed in ourselves." Melanchthon, Theologica Institutio (1519/20)
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Everyone go read Todd Hains's excellent little book lest you get called out like this:
@Jeb_R *to his reading of Holy Scripture
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Nice to finally see a coherent effort to try and mend the hermeneutical dilemma between theologians, biblical scholars, and church historians. Highly recommended.
Just starting this finally. I always love reading books from former professors. KJV is the real deal.
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From Robert Kolb's "Georg Major as Controversialist." "Like Melanchthon, Major must have prayed for deliverance from the madness of theologians..." He would've loved Twitter I'm sure.
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“By wondrous birth; be thou in Adam's room The head of all mankind, though Adam's son. As in him perish all men, so in thee, As from a second root, shall be restored As many as are restored, without thee none.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
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"It is useful to divide and collect dissimilar interpretations and to see what is closest to the sources and is consistent with the perpetual consensus of the Prophets and Apostles." Philip Melanchthon to Thomas Cranmer in the preface to Alexander Alesius' 1553 Romans Commentary
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I spend so much of my life working in front of a computer screen that reading physical books feels like such a treat.
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@_AndrewTucker Sitting here trying to make sense of Duns Scotus and wondering if I will ever emerge from this swirling vortex.
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The more I read Luther's Lectures on Romans, the more clear it becomes to me just how central Luther's reading of the Psalms is to his interpretation of the Apostle Paul.
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