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It's admirable and right that you passed this information on. I know of a Pentecostal church in Brisbane which attempted to cover up heinous inappropriate sexual advances made by a church employee to underage girls. The pastor of the church when addressing the issue to the congregation mentioned that Brendan Mann (why wouldn't I say his name) was simply offering assistance to the police.Believe me, even though I will face up to whatever sins, evil and false doctrine that we Pentecostals have and will continue to propogate, I am certainly well versed enough with church history to recognise that Rome has a lot to answer for. I probably should say that about 12 months ago I passed on some information regarding a paedophile that a rather well know Pentecostal leader here in Melbourne had "protected" about 20 years back, so as you can imagine, if I can face up to our own wickedness, then the sins of the various historical denominations are absolutely fair game - let's hope that I can be as honest and judicial with my own life as well!
As my primary interest is with Pneumatology, where my views are heavily conditioned by a strong Trinitarian foundation, this means that I will relate to the better contemporary scholars, be they theologians, exegetical scholars or lexiographers. This demands that I read through the better commentaries and monographs that are based on First Corinthians in particular, where at the moment I currently own 14 contemporary commentaries (along with about four monographs) on First Corinthians. My Avatar contains all of my commentaries on First Corinthians which came about when I had them stacked on my desk during a particular study. As I have an interest with photography I though that it would make a great Avatar, so I grabbed a background screen and hey presto!
Owning 14 commentaries on Corinthians is admirable too. My interests aren't in the Corinthian community so the only overviews on Corinthians I own are the general overviews of the NT, Paul Achtemeier and a few others. I did have Daniel Boyarin's monograph of St Paul from a Jewish perspective but I think it's been misplaced.
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