Papias' Logia: March 2009

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

New Believer CD Coming Out

I just found out yesterday that one of my fav old school bands was going to be putting out a new CD on March 17 - Believer. The cover looks GOOD. I may have to save a little money and buy this one outright, if I can find it. I wonder?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_(album)

You see, Believer was one of the bands early in me being a Christian. While most bands were knock offs of some secular band, Believer was a band that was hard to categorize. They were a bit of Motorhead, bit of some other bands that if I mentioned very few people would know.(I actually met Lemmy from Motorhead a couple years back - got to shake his hand.) Believer was pretty original in the thrash scene. I was stoked when Extol covered "Shadow of Death" a few years back, and their CD "Synergy" was pretty much a nod of the cap towards Believer.

About my namesake...

Papias wrote in the first half of the second century and was one of the early leaders of the Christian church. Church historian Eusebius calls him the "Bishop of Hierapolis" (modern Pamukkale, Turkey) which is 22 kilometers from Laodicea near Colossae (see Colossians 4:13).

His “Interpretations of the Sayings of the Lord” (his word for "sayings" is "logia") in five books, would have been a prime early authority in the exegesis of the sayings of Jesus. His treatise, however, has utterly disappeared, and is known only through fragments quoted by later writers, with approval by Irenaeus in "Against Heresies", and later with scorn by Eusebius of Caesarea in "Ecclesiastical History."

Eusebius calls Papias "a man of small mental capacity" (Hist. Eccl. 3.39.13), who mistook the figurative language of apostolic traditions. Whether this was so is difficult to judge without the text available; it is thought that perhaps Eusebius objected to Papias' premillenialism (chiliasm), which by the fourth century had been supplanted by the common church doctrine of amillennialism.

It was thought that Papias was "a hearer of John, and companion of Polycarp, a man of old time." According to another tradition, Papias shared in the martyrdom of Polycarp, (c. AD 155). Eusebius, who places him with Clement and Ignatius under the reign of Trajan, suggests that he wrote about AD 115. In all likelihood, he wrote his treatise in the first quarter of the second century. What remains today are only fragments of his Treatise quoted in the writings of Irenaeus and Eusebius.

Papias' Logia

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

New Believer CD Coming Out

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Trip to St. Louis Arch

Monday, March 02, 2009

Cause that's how I feel....