RE: A minor quibble about a response to: Chaismus: Greek, Latin, Hebrew

Peter Phillips (p.m.phillips@cliff.shef.ac.uk)
Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:19:09 -0000

As an non-Oxbridge academic working in England please do not perpetuate the
rather childish interplay between Oxford and Cambridge by using their
defamatory references to one another!!!

Yours, a bolshy englishman!

Pete Phillips

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From: Jeffrey Gibson [SMTP:jgibson@acfsysv.roosevelt.edu]
Sent: 19 November 1997 23:00
To: Michael A. Ferrando
Cc: clayton bartholomew; b-greek
Subject: A minor quibble about a response to: Chaismus: Greek, Latin,
Hebrew

On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Michael A. Ferrando wrote:
> > Anyone who would like to read an excellent monograph on Quicunque
> > (Athanasian Creed) should get their hands on "The Athanasian Creed", by
> > J.N.D. Kelly, Harper and Row, 1964.
>
> Formunites:
> I did read this work,
> (the English text that is)
> and it surprised me that
> when I received the book
> from the stacks here at
> the Library of Congress
> that it was not about
> the Nicean Creed of 325 AD,
> but another.
>
> And further, now that my
> ignorance was enlightened
> since it was this creed
> that so many deists struggled
> with in the latter part of
> the 17th Century (notably
> Isaac Newton who was able
> to continue his chair at
> Oxford without taking the
> vows affirming the creed)
> was infact as termed by one
> theologian. Neither.

A minor quibble, and having nothing to do with Greek. But for accuracy's
sake, please note that Newton was NOT at Oxford, either as a student or a
don; rather, he was at The Other Place.

J.N.D. Kelly, however, was an Oxford man (and perhaps still is -- anyone
know if Kelly is still alive?)

Jeffrey Gibson
jgibson@acfsysv.roosevelt.edu