From our Presenting Forum Sponsor: Novum Institute
Howdy Ags!
I am Dustin Valerius (NovumiAg) a member of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Class of '98 and co-founder of the Novum Institute serving as Director of the Novumi Community.
The Novum Institute is a newly created theological education, research, and consulting institution - a theological think tank. We invite you to learn more about us at Novumi.org and in the near future we will start a thread to answer any specific questions you might have about Novum. However, right now I would like to introduce you to my founding partner and let you know what we hope to bring to the R&P forum in the weeks ahead.
Mark Catlin(Mark_Novum) is co-founder of the Novum Institute serving as Director of the Novum Think Tank. Mark grew up in Birmingham, AL, attended Samford University, graduating with a degree in Classics. Along the way to co-founding Novum he would collect a couple of masters degrees and is currently in his dissertation only stage of a Ph.D in Old Testament. Despite all of that, rest assured, Mark is actually a lot of fun to hang out with at a tailgate party.
So here is what we aim to do as the sponsor of R&P. We want to create some guided discussions about theology and philosophy with the members of the forum. When we can, we will invite scholars of theology and philosophy into the discussion with you. Although Novum exists as an organization coming from a Christian perspective, we will work to invite scholars into the discussion that do not believe the same things we do, providing a point-counterpoint discussion between scholars. Having monitored this forum we know that there are plenty of you that will and can provide counterpoints as well and we welcome them. We want lively and entertaining discussions and we won't mind even contentious discussions. However, where we will work to draw the line is on personal or ad hominem attacks. Civil and meaningful discussion is our goal on the Novum related threads.
Trying to stay true to the TexAgs way, our starting point for future discussions will be mostly informed by you, the R&P forum community. The way will start this is by asking you to post questions of theology and philosophy that you would like Novum to address over the next several months with scholars joining as we are able to bring them into the discussion.
Novum will pick at least one question to address at the start of each week. Depending upon how many questions get posted in this thread, we will likely not get to every question. We will try to pick questions that are different enough to provide a variety from week to week, but if one topic is discussed in a way that it makes sense to continue the topic from a different vantage point the next week, we will make that call. The questions that have the highest chance of getting addressed will likely be those with the most stars or a similar question that gets asked several different times.
Our hope is that we will be able to introduce some interesting and entertaining features along the way. The Novum team is looking forward to reading your responses and questions. Our desire is to provide great content and guide great discussions about topics we love to talk about and we know you love to talk about.
So ask away!
Also, I know all of you have a burning question to ask Mark given the fact that he was born and raised in Alabama. You can ask that question, it will not be counted as a question for the R&P discussion threads!
Howdy Ags!
I am Dustin Valerius (NovumiAg) a member of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Class of '98 and co-founder of the Novum Institute serving as Director of the Novumi Community.
The Novum Institute is a newly created theological education, research, and consulting institution - a theological think tank. We invite you to learn more about us at Novumi.org and in the near future we will start a thread to answer any specific questions you might have about Novum. However, right now I would like to introduce you to my founding partner and let you know what we hope to bring to the R&P forum in the weeks ahead.
Mark Catlin(Mark_Novum) is co-founder of the Novum Institute serving as Director of the Novum Think Tank. Mark grew up in Birmingham, AL, attended Samford University, graduating with a degree in Classics. Along the way to co-founding Novum he would collect a couple of masters degrees and is currently in his dissertation only stage of a Ph.D in Old Testament. Despite all of that, rest assured, Mark is actually a lot of fun to hang out with at a tailgate party.
So here is what we aim to do as the sponsor of R&P. We want to create some guided discussions about theology and philosophy with the members of the forum. When we can, we will invite scholars of theology and philosophy into the discussion with you. Although Novum exists as an organization coming from a Christian perspective, we will work to invite scholars into the discussion that do not believe the same things we do, providing a point-counterpoint discussion between scholars. Having monitored this forum we know that there are plenty of you that will and can provide counterpoints as well and we welcome them. We want lively and entertaining discussions and we won't mind even contentious discussions. However, where we will work to draw the line is on personal or ad hominem attacks. Civil and meaningful discussion is our goal on the Novum related threads.
Trying to stay true to the TexAgs way, our starting point for future discussions will be mostly informed by you, the R&P forum community. The way will start this is by asking you to post questions of theology and philosophy that you would like Novum to address over the next several months with scholars joining as we are able to bring them into the discussion.
Novum will pick at least one question to address at the start of each week. Depending upon how many questions get posted in this thread, we will likely not get to every question. We will try to pick questions that are different enough to provide a variety from week to week, but if one topic is discussed in a way that it makes sense to continue the topic from a different vantage point the next week, we will make that call. The questions that have the highest chance of getting addressed will likely be those with the most stars or a similar question that gets asked several different times.
Our hope is that we will be able to introduce some interesting and entertaining features along the way. The Novum team is looking forward to reading your responses and questions. Our desire is to provide great content and guide great discussions about topics we love to talk about and we know you love to talk about.
So ask away!
Also, I know all of you have a burning question to ask Mark given the fact that he was born and raised in Alabama. You can ask that question, it will not be counted as a question for the R&P discussion threads!