The Faithlife platform family (e.g., Logos, Noet) now has Mortimer Adler鈥檚 60-volume聽Great Books of the Western World聽(Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1990) available for preorder. It seems聽the information from Adler鈥檚聽Syntopicon has also been embedded within this digital version of the series.
On the web: Nijay Gupta聽provides the table of contents for the latest issue of the聽Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters. Robert Woods聽reflects on significance and dissonance in Great Books. Abram K-J discusses the G枚ttingen Septuagint ( 1, 2, HT: Tommy Wasserman).
Earlier today, the program director, Robert Woods, announced that the Christian Institute for the Study of Liberal Arts would begin offering a SACS-accredited, fully distance-based PhD program: This PhD is literally one-of-a-kind in that it is fully accredited (SACS), offered fully distance with the dissertation being defended via conference call with a designated Research Fellow, and the student鈥檚 full committee having guided the research. This PhD is uniquely interdisciplinary in structure and practice. A number of the highly qualified faculty are generalists and encourage the kind of readings, research, and writing that reflects an interdisciplinary drive. ...