A few items...

We are happily away from immediate responsibilities of work and school for a few weeks -- a much needed holiday with family.  I've just finished reading H. Stuart Hughes' Consciousness and Society, which I have been meaning to get to ever since encountering it in the footnotes of Pauck's little Harnack-Troeltsch biography.  I would definitely recommend the book (with a few hesitations) for a survey of a pivotal period in recent intellectual history.  Interestingly, Hughes was pretty dismissive of Troeltsch, presenting him as a decidedly second-rate thinker throughout (a worthwhile criticism to consider, I think, though a bit too harsh as presented).  I am now into a much-needed rereading of Schleiermacher's On Religion, and then on to his Hermeneutics and Criticism. 

• Charles Morerod has been replaced by Serge Thomas Bonino as the general secretary of the International Theological Commission.  I mentioned Morerod earlier this year in relation to some odd statements about theology and philosophy.

• Hildegard of Bingen will be made a doctor of the church.

• Congratulations to two PTS theologians... W. Travis McMacken for successfully defending, and David Congdon for an editing  position with IVP.

• Difficulties have arisen between the Anglican Mission in the Americas and the Province of Rwanda. AMiA bishops have broken (and created schism?) with Rwanda.  Time will tell what future oversight will look like... perhaps a move towards ACNA?

•  The latest issue of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal is out, celebrating 25 years of the Ecclesiastical Law Society.  Included in the issue is a reprinting of the late Eric Kemp's "The Spirit of the Canon Law and its Application in England," which was given as the keynote address of the Society's first meeting and published in the first issue of the journal.