Sunday, May 25, 2008

Kelly, J.N.D. Jerome 1998

Born in Dalmatia 331.

20: On entering the religious life, J could not abandon his books [Let.22,30]

27: Trier was J's favorite city in W. Europe

45: J's letter of affection to Rufinus [374: Ep.3 & 4]

60: allegorical after literal interpretation

76: "even morally offensive passages of the O.T.": Anglican Canon Kelly [morally offensive in the O.T.? Will he rewrite the OT?]

87: "Textual criticism is, of course, a modern science": Kelly ["Of course" is what Stanley Fish calls the giveaway that something is not "of course"]

92: "Paula's ruinously lavish charity": Kelly [Whom did it ruin?]

106: Contra Helvidium [Kelly is contemptuous of the idea of a chaste marriage]

142: J calling Rome "the scarlet clad whore"

178: "the most vivid impression he leaves is of his conceit and vanity": Kelly

186: "Against Jovinian seems to modern readers ...": Kelly [modern readers = me]

272: "Augustine was the younger man, still at the beginning of what was to be an increasingly splendid career": Kelly [Place seeking?]

293; "These prophets offer difficulties which even [sic] modern scholarship finds baffling": Kelly

A sad book, which apparently is only too typical of the [now hidden] scorn and bitterness of the Anglican establishment. His Dictionary of the Popes is worthwhile. This book adds nothing.

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