A few items...

• Notre Dame announces its first endowed chair in Byantine theology.  The chairholder will have joint appointments in the Medieval Institute and the Theology Department. 

• Travis has posted a rough translation by Matt Bruce from the newly published Eberhard Busch Tagebuch 1965-68.  The volume offers biographical material on Busch's work with Barth.  And good news... Tom Kraft has confirmed that T&T Clark is working on a translation.

• Two recent articles on Schleiermacher... Robert Merrihew Adams on philosophical aspects of his Christology, and Johannes Wischmeyer on his involvement with the founding of the University of Berlin. [the second link goes straight to a pdf download]

• Cardinal Levada, prefect of the CDF, is retiring.  

• There has been a lot of discussion on blogs about George Monbiot's article on academic publishing, which I mentioned a few days ago.   Anthropologi.info has a post worth reading that summarizes a number of responses.  Many involve open access solutions, either official ones or personal posting articles in violation copyright agreements.  I continue to think that a sustainable market of scholarly literature is possible and useful, and that individual scholars can do the most good by 1) avoiding publishing in journals that perpetuate the problem (I know this can make it tough for theologians when so many of our journals are at presses like Wiley-Blackwell), and 2) writing to the editorial boards of those journals and letting them know about your concerns.

•  A conference at the University of Chicago Divinity School on Eriugena and Creation, in honor of Edouard Jeauneau of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies.