Last Updated on Saturday, 12 September 2009 21:40 Written by Greg Monday, 22 September 2008 15:42

I am beginning the long process of rereading and revising the papers I have written in the course of my studies.  There will be a whole range of technicality, some far thicker than others.  While very few of these are papers I would deem worthy of formal publication, they reflect a great deal of research and thought, and I figure there is no reason to keep that in a filing cabinet.  I intend to go in roughly chronological order, so the first paper I've uploaded was written in undergrad.  I've cleaned it up a bit, but it still pretty well reflects that stage of my development.  Some of the bibliographic info. is missing, because I simply wasn't thorough with my documentation.  That all changes after Introduction to Graduate Studies (a tip of the hat to Don Meredith's life-long contribution to the red pen industry).

As for the substance of the paper, there is much that I would leave the same in presenting the development of the hermeneutic of silence in the restoration movement (though, of course, with more original sources), and although I would argue some of the theological points more thoroughly and with a different tone, they are not off the mark in my present perspective.  It is noteworthy that this paper was written in a highly polemical situation.  Due to the teacher's proclivities, our senior "seminar in doctrine" consisted of four prolonged discussions of his favorite CofC issues: baptism, the supper, the instrument, and women's roles.  I did not take his selection of material or his presentation well, so sparks generally flew in class sessions.  The tenor of the entire semester influenced my paper, for better of worse.  Here is it, for those who do not want to browse the downloads section.

Instrumental Music and the Hermeneutic of Silence.pdf