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e loss of friends and the illnesses and deaths of loved ones every historical actor i ever read about or personally knew suffered something about which they had to suppress their feelings as they answered this naif s questions lovers live as though they ll continue along the same lines until some unknown and distant endpoint no death may very well overtake one or the other sometimes when one is in advanced age and grieving the loss unimaginably my libertarian genius friend murray rothbard 1926 1995 left joey 1928 1999 too soon fay aptheker 1905 1999 predeceased my erstwhile friend and ideological apothecary herbert 1915 2003 when he was physically and mentally at his most vulnerable stalin s bibliophilia had no aesthetic dimension it served his commitment to communist revolution and to securing its gains whatever the cost the communist vision effectively functioned as his absolute a pseudo transcendent object against which he measured everything else but since the latter cannot function in one s life as a genuine absolute stalin was bound to distort his relationship to reality his family his friends and comrades and to truth itself by contrast another bookworm otis q sellers 1901 1992 consecrated his life not to the demonic fantasy of communism but to the god whose logos is the truth and revealed to his people truths of the enscripturated propositional kind the one on whom koba the ex seminarian fatefully turned his back just two years before sellers s nativity in the new century 3 notes 1 yale university press 2025 2 although jan hus was executed in 1415 and martin v was not elected pope until 1417 both events occurring while the council of constance was in session what martin did immediately after his election leaves no doubt that he endorsed the council s ghastly sentence before becoming pope martin v cardinal oddo colonna was an influential member of the roman curia on behalf of then pope john xxiii he colonna had investigated the czech reformer s writings branded hus a heretic and issued his excommunication demonstrating a longstanding personal and theological opposition to hus well before the execution that john xxiii was baldassarre cossa whom angelo roncalli 1881 1963 the good john xxiii r 1958 1963 later declared an anti pope thereby settling a five century debate over cossa s status and regularizing the papal chronology on february 22 1418 just months after his election martin v promulgated inter cunctas the papal bull recognizing the decisions of the council of constance including its condemnation of the thirty heretical articles of jan hus that execrable screed also mandated that the holy inquisition interrogate and hand over to secular authorities any suspected hussite the very mechanism that had led to hus s being burned at the stake 3 in april or may 1899 dzhugashvili left or was expelled from the seminary in tiflis in his native georgia officially it was because he missed his final exams uncle joe said it was because he ran marxist propaganda circles within the seminary walls by 1899 he had taken on the alias koba the fictional caucasian bandit of alexander kazbegi s 1882 the patricide მამის მკვლელი mamis mkvleli and traded in his mother s russian orthodox christian faith for marxism the ex seminarian having abandoned any path toward the priesthood briefly took a job as a meteorologist and transformed himself into a dedicated agitator for atheism author anthony flood posted on september 9 2026 september 9 2026 categories history politics tags angelo roncalli communism herbert aptheker jan hus joseph stalin libertarianism murray rothbard otis q sellers more on george novack trotskyist philosopher from a visitor almost seven years ago i concluded when george novack was an entranced disciple of whitehead with if you visitors to this site can shed any light on novack s life and times please do so in the combox thanks well yesterday michael zimmerman a diligent student of novack s writings took the time to correct misapprehensions i was laboring under he granted permission to publish our brief correspondence all dated today which i include below in full with gratitude a general metaphilosophical answer to novack and other philosophers may be inferred from my philosophy after christ a g f here is mr zimmerman s first message i recently came across your blog post dated november 6th 2019 titled when george novack was an entranced disciple of whitehead it caught the attention of my search engine while i was doing some research on the life of novack what immediately stood out is that you have mistakenly labeled a picture of novelist james t farrell as being that of george novack farrell s picture carries the caption george novack 1905 1992 circa early 1930s i have corrected this a g f you ended that entry with an open request for comments from anyone who can shed light on novack s life and times as a student of his i thought i would offer some insights into what his work has to say on the positions you have attributed to novack firstly marxism leninism became a term of self reference for the petty bourgeois stalinist caste and its loyalists in the nationalist communist parties in order to conflate their counterrevolutionary movement with the workers and peasants revolution of the early 20th century to my knowledge novack never called himself a marxist leninist but firmly aligned himself with the trotskyist movement having personally worked with leon trotsky politically and philosophically and having given his life s work in service of a trotskyist party this is an important clarification because search engines and large language models such as chatgpt and gemini are using your website to justify claims about novack as a marxist leninist a title which cannot apply to novack given the trajectory of his political life continue reading more on george novack trotskyist philosopher from a visitor author anthony flood posted on september 1 2026 categories philosophy politics tags george novack leon trotsky economics and oikonomia towards a christian oikonomics in the dispensation of grace as i await the launch of my book on dispensationalist otis q sellers 1901 1992 1 i m reflecting on materials on oikonomia the greek behind dispensation e g ephesians 3 2 from the late reformed historian and economist gary north 1942 2022 i m alive to the danger of equivocation in this case of reading theological dispensationalism into north s understanding of economics still the theological system and the modern field of inquiry must be related even as they re distinguished a dispensationalist myself 2 i cite the anti dispensationalist north against interest if you will please charitably consider what follows in this long post not a finished treatise but rather a collection of unfinished notes that will feed into such work criticism is welcome what i m finding without looking for it is the metaphysical significance of god s sovereignty as the ground of ownership the sovereign god of scripture is the first and ultimate moral owner not merely physical possessor of all things the one who delegates stewardship responsibility to his created image bearers non christian free market economists have grounded deductive systems but fail to establish that anyone owns anything morally at best these utilitarians demonstrate that failure to respect property rights leads to consequences that they or the audience for whom they presume to write find undesirable natural law theorists try to avoid the subjectivism of the utilitarians but unless they start with the sovereign god of scripture they re no better off than their utilitarian rivals the matter in a nutshell god prohibits stealing which implies that its victims owned the things stolen the economic oikonomic dimension of christian individualism north discusses the etymology of oikonomia explicitly but not as far as i know in his multivolume economic commentary on the bible 3 see however his unconditional surrender the bible says that god owns the entire creation including all the souls in the universe he proposes and disposes none can resist his will but man who was made in the image of god and who still has a twisted image of god at his very being has been appointed to be god s steward continue reading economics and oikonomia towards a christian oikonomics in the dispensation of grace author anthony flood posted on august 28 2026 september 2 2026 categories christian individualism economics tags adam smith christian individualism craig a blaising darrell l bock gary north ludwig von mises otis q sellers progressive dispensationalism ecce femina wé ani my musical oasis revisited wé ani after recording her cover of shallow on this site i ve sung wé ani s praises many times 1 i won t repeat here what i ve written she doesn t have a beautiful voice but rather many beautiful voices every performance is a study in a specific texture your interest and time budget either allow you to pursue the evidence for my opinion or they don t if they don t then the following words are just so much blah blah i composed this essay for the record not to convince you of anything there is no generic wé ani the gift she bestows in scars to your beautiful is different from that of for example and in no particular order somewhere over the rainbow or shallow or you know i m no good or scared to live i ll arbitrarily stop there 2 discovering her music made me feel like a kid again which is why writing this was difficult continue reading ecce femina wé ani my musical oasis revisited author anthony flood posted on august 9 2026 august 9 2026 categories music tags wé ani ἐκκλησίᾳ ekklēsia cannot be translated it must be taken over disentangling otis q sellers s citation of schmidt and deissmann on church a short detective story also on substack otis q sellers took over the meaning of church but not the way most christians did in christian individualism the maverick biblical workmanship of otis q sellers atmosphere press 2026 forthcoming i devote a chapter to his deconstruction of church as most christians in the dispensation of grace ephesians 3 2 have meant by that term he held that ἐκκλησίᾳ ekklēsia in the new testament nt is a governmental term that refers to no society in this dispensation sellers didn t deny the existence of churches that would have been absurd for those societies abound he denied that there are ἐκκλησίᾳί ekklēsiai in the nt sense no matter how many or for how long christians have held that conceit the government in question is the kingdom of god worldwide in scope revealed in part during the acts period and suspended during the current dispensation of grace until the that day in the future when it blazes forth ἐπιφανείας epiphaneias 1 timothy 6 14 so that all flesh see it together isaiah 40 6 this will be the second coming not of christ in the flesh but of the holy spirt john the baptizer jesus christ and his apostles heralded that kingdom s arrival throughout the acts period until the time marked by 28 28 in that book that s when the salvation bringing message of god was authorized that is made freely available ἀπεστάλη apestalē to all without the need for a human intermediary back to our detective story sellers an omnivorous reader cited scholars who no more shared his radical conclusions than he did their modernism and its methodological naturalism these writers did however share his love for exactitude in the meaning of words 1 one such scholar was karl ludwig schmidt 1891 1956 another adolf deissmann 1866 1937 unfortunately sellers did not always have collaborators to catch his rare all too human failure to keep his references straight i know what it s like to be corrected because of that lack karl ludwig schmidt schmidt gave sellers qualified certainly unintended support for his own view the man moses sellers writes had a position out of god he was ekklēsia an out called man he was israel s chief executive supreme judge and lawgiver but let no one choke on the idea of one man being out called of god this is one truth that all must learn as karl ludwig schmidt the renowned greek scholar puts it to put the matter in a nutshell a single individual could be would have to be the ekklēsia if he has communion with christ 2 a german theologian and professor of new testament studies at the university of basel 1935 1953 3 schmidt made this statement in the church die kirche written for the third volume of the theological dictionary of the new testament tdnt edited by gerhard kittel sellers concluded his brief study with a statement he attributes erroneously to schmidt ἐκκλησίᾳ ekklēsia cannot be translated it must be taken over my doubts about sellers s source for this pithy conclusion expressed in my forthcoming book as it went to press beyond cost free emendation only grew in the book i note both that sellers a asserted that they are schmidt s words and b did not cite his source further research revealed that sellers unintentionally melded what he had gotten from schmidt with something that the older nt scholar adolf deissmann had asserted 4 barking up the schmidt tree in vain i failed to find the words sellers had attributed to him for a while i thought they might be from schmidt s article the church in theology today tt 5 but to that journal i had and have no institutional access my friend dave lull a retired public librarian graciously alerted me to the wayback machine s facsimile of this article 6 again to be clear sellers was not citing schmidt in support of sellers s ecclesiology so much as enlisting him as an unexpected witness to the truth that careful attention to the greek term ἐκκλησία is indispensable for getting at the truth that god intended to convey by breathing that word into various nt writings i speculated that the elusive reference was the tdnt entry but i see that s only partially true in the footnote on page 39 of the tt article we read this is a shortened version of the article on ἐκκλησία in kittel s theologisches worterbüch zum neuen testament 7 but neither version has the words highlighted in this article s title sellers ends more about ekklēsia seed bread no 141 with two quotations asserting that both came from schmidt s pen in fact only one of them did worthy of note here sellers wrote are two remarks by karl ludwig schmidt ekklesia cannot be translated it must be taken over it is desirable to establish the exact meaning of ekklesia because this is a point at which linguistic accuracy makes a real contribution to biblical theology now we can find the second one on page 8 of the adam and charles black version of the church the words are schmidt s 8 and then my friend whom some justifiably hail as the argonaut of the internet 9 hit paydirt the phrase sellers thought noteworthy comes not from schmidt but from deissmann that is dave lull located 10 the text of deissmann s light from the ancient east the new testament 11 on page 114 he found here 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