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  1. Sep 2023
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  4. Aug 2022
    1. level 2hog8541ssOp · 15 hr. agoVery nice! I am a pastor so I am researching Antinet being used along with Bible studies.

      If you've not come across the examples, one of the precursors of the slip box tradition was the widespread use of florilegia from the 8th through the 13th centuries and beyond, and they were primarily used for religious study, preaching, and sermon writing.

      A major example of early use was by Philip Melanchthon, who wrote a very popular handbook on how to keep a commonplace. He's one of the reasons why many Lutheran books are called or have Commonplace in the title.

      A fantastic example is that of American preacher Jonathan Edwards which he called by an alternate name of Miscellanies which is now digitized and online, much the way Luhmann's is: http://edwards.yale.edu/research/misc-index Apparently he used to pin slips with notes on his coat jacket!

      If I recall, u/TomKluender may have some practical experience in the overlap of theology and zettelkasten.

      (Moved this comment to https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/wth5t8/bible_study_and_zettelkasten/ as a better location for the conversation)

  5. May 2022
    1. I would love to hear how other Christians are using the antinet for bible studies.

      There's a tremendously long history here. Some related words and areas of intellectual history to study here for examples include "florilegia", "commonplace books", and even "miscellanies".

      Philip Melanchthon wrote several handbooks on the topic and had some useful historical examples including one of the most influential: De locis communibus ratio (Augsberg, 1593). You might appreciate this article on some of the tradition: https://blog.cph.org/study/systematic-theology-and-apologetics/why-are-so-many-great-lutheran-books-called-commonplaces-or-loci

      • Philip Melanchthon, Institutiones rhetoricae. Wittenberg [1536].
      • Philip Melanchthon, Rhetorices elementa. Lyon, 1537.

      Jonathan Edwards had a significant version which he called his Miscellanies though his was written in book form, though it can now also be found digitized online at http://edwards.yale.edu/research/misc-index.

    1. Edwards died from a smallpox inoculation shortly after beginning the presidency at the College of New Jersey in Princeton.[7]
    2. During his college studies, he kept notebooks labeled "The Mind," "Natural Science" (containing a discussion of the atomic theory), "The Scriptures" and "Miscellanies," had a grand plan for a work on natural and mental philosophy, and drew up rules for its composition.[9]
  6. Mar 2022
    1. Users who expe rience empowering designs that are comprehensible, predictable, and controllable, may be inspired to pursue quality in their work products.

      This sounds a lot like the management philosophy of W. Edwards Deming who encouraged managers to empower workers to take ownership of their craft and work.

  7. Dec 2021
  8. Aug 2021
    1. Müller-Wille and Scharf ‘Indexing Nature’, also points out that Linnaeus interleaved blanksheets into his texts so that he could take notes. Cooper points out that this had been a common practice in natural historysince at least the late seventeenth century (Cooper, Inventing the Indigenous, 74–5).

      Apparently interleaving blank sheets into texts was a more common practice than I had known! I've seen it in the context of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) using the practice to take notes in his Bible, but not in others.

  9. Jul 2021
    1. Edwards did this too. He'd take notes on scraps while walking and pin them to his coat. (Zettelmantel?) Later, he'd organize them and add them to his "Miscellanies" (1,500+ topics over his career). http://edwards.yale.edu/research/misc-index

      This was the origin of my spelunking of Jonathan Edwards' commonplace book last night.

      I love the idea of pinning ideas to one's coat so as not to lose them. Fortunately good pocket notebooks these days, but it would be interesting to wear one's ideas on one's sleeves.

      (Look up the source for the note scraps on the coat.)

    1. I'm particularly interested here in the idea of interleaved books for additional marginalia. Thanks for the details!

      An aspect that's missing from the overall discussion here is that of the commonplace book. Edwards' Miscellanies is a classic example of the Western note taking and idea collecting tradition of commonplace books.

      While the name for his system is unique, his note taking method was assuredly not. The bigger idea goes back to ancient Greece and Rome with Aristotle and Cicero and continues up to the modern day.

      From roughly 900-1300 theologians and preachers also had a sub-genre of this category called florilegia. In the Christian religious tradition Philip Melanchthon has one of the more influential works on the system: De locis communibus ratio (1539).

      You might appreciate this article on some of the tradition: https://blog.cph.org/study/systematic-theology-and-apologetics/why-are-so-many-great-lutheran-books-called-commonplaces-or-loci

      You'll find Edwards' and your indexing system bears a striking resemblance to that of philosopher John Locke, (yes that Locke!): https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-lockes-method-for-common-place-books-1685

    2. Those interested in reading the contents of Edwards’ Blank Bible can either purchase the Yale print edition or read it online here. 

      Copies of print and digital editions of Jonathan Edwards' blank Bible are available.

      Apparently one can buy modern copies of interleaved bibles as well: https://www.amazon.com/Interleaved-Journal-Hardcover-Letter-Comfort/dp/078524316X/

      Video review of an interleaved bible:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6EAu3nB1vk

      What other books can be found in interleaved editions? Ayn Rand perhaps?

    3. Jonathan Edwards’s so-called “Blank Bible.” JE received as a gift from Benjamin Pierpoint, his brother in law, a unique book. Structurally, it is a strange animal. It is a small, double-column King James, unstitched and then spliced back together again inside a large blank journal. The result is a one-of-a-kind Bible that has an empty sheet between every page of Scripture text. 

      If one is serious about annotating a text, then consider making a "blank Bible" version of it.

      Jonathan Edwards apparently received bible as a gift. It had a copy of the text of the bible which interspersed blank pages between every page of text thereby allowing massive amounts of space for marginalia!

    4. The miscellanies, numbered and indexed, would often be noted in the margins of his Bible as well, especially if the note was an expansion of an exegetical point.

      Interesting to see that Jonathan Edwards cross referenced his commonplace book to his bible as well.

    5. As I studied Edwards’ writings and insights, I realized that I might be sitting at the feet of not only Edwards’ intellectual genius but his organizational genius, too. 

      For what I expect to be a coming description of Jonathan Edwards' commonplace book, I'm surprised that the page doesn't use the word or even florilegium.

      Everhard here makes in one breath a common error I'm coming to notice. While it might be true that Edwards had some organizational genius, I think it's disingenuous to attribute his output to his intellectual genius. More and more I'm seeing that throughout history those who were thought of as intellectual geniuses really relied on the organization structures of their commonplace books (or similar devices). By writing, thinking, and producing in a commonplace tradition they were able to do far more, think more clearly, and accomplish more.

      This can be linked with the idea also espoused in Robert Greene's Mastery which seems to have some of the similar flavor.

    1. Best Bible Note-Taking System: Jonathan Edwards's Miscellanies

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqq-4-LiFVs

      Overview of Jonathan Edwards Miscellanies system along with a a few wide-margin bibles. Everhard apparently hasn't heard of the commonplace concept, though I do notice that someone mentions the zettelkasten system in the comments.

  10. Dec 2018
  11. Feb 2017
    1. Image, SiteDescriptions

      YAY! And nice title, too!

    2. The images need explanation and attribution.

    3. What time are you observing? What day? This is important information. Can you imagine why?

    4. and barring an anomaly is going to be right on time. The human traffic

      objective?

    5. just in case both of those happen to go out of order at any time.

      Is this objective description?

    6. The Martin Luther King marta station is the seventh stop coming from the eastbound direction and the fifth stop coming from the westbound direction

      In Atlanta? Your writing needs to imagine an audience of researchers outside of this class, city, state...

  12. Oct 2015
    1. It was a pure delight, which fed and satisfied the soul. It was peasure

      While Sarah Pierrepont Edwards' awakening is not quite as sexual as Edwards', there are certainly similar words being used. "Sweet," "delight," "pleasure," "fill," we've seen these words before.

    2. sweet

      I just want to report the return of "sweet." It's in here ten times,

    3. was worth more than all the outward comfort and pleasure, which I had enjoyed in my whole life put together.

      That's one hell of a vision

    4. so that there seemed to be a constant flowing and reflowing of heavenly and divine love, from Christ’s heart to mine

      So much sweetness and feelings of unconditional, consuming love here

    5. But all night I continued in a constant, clear and lively sense of the heavenly sweetness of Christ’s excellent and transcendent love, of his nearness to me, and of my dearness to him; with an inexpressibly sweet calmness of soul in an entire rest in him.

      A religious epiphany/awakening to Christ's power

    1. nothing that you can do

      But there is something? Edwards said before that believing in God would save them....I'm so done with this guy.

    2. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you

      Where the hell does he get this stuff? We are bugs? God hates us? I don't think Edwards and I read the same Bible....

    3. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you

      Where the hell does he get this stuff? We are bugs? God hates us? I don't think Edwards and I read the same Bible....

    4. bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow

      The use of the bow and arrow here to represent God's judgement is interesting: what are the implications of using a weapon to describe God?

    5. nothing but the mere pleasure of God that holds the waters back,

      I want to know how many times he says the same thing in different ways.

    6. were it not for the restraining hand of God, it would immediately burst forth upon you

      Yes, thanks Edwards. We get it.

    7. were made for men to serve God with

      I feel that, according to the Bible, it was the other way around. Humans were "above" all living things and they were made to serve us.

    8. he earth would not bear you one moment

      I think this viewpoint is interesting. From the Christian perspective, God created the Earth and all the creatures and then let Adam and Eve name them, it seems like they were created for humans (from the Christian perspective).

    9. APPLICATION The use may be of awakening to unconverted persons in this congregation.

      It kind of sounds like an instruction manual. Application for sermon: to scare the hell out of non-believers

    10. God certainly has made no promises either of eternal life, or of any deliverance or preservation from eternal death,

      I feel like this is an exact promise in the Bible. Edwards really likes scare tactics.

    11. God’s appointed time is not come

      God controls everything, reminds me of Rowlandson

    12. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire

      God doesn't sound like someone I want to hang out with for eternity

    13. ’tis nothing but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction.

      God takes pleasure in torturing us is what it sounds like

    14. but your guilt in the mean time is constantly increasing, and you are every day treasuring up more wrath; the waters are continually rising, and waxing more and more mighty

      The longer you remain wicked (by not truly believing in God), the more of a burden you put on yourself to make up for your sins

    15. the earth would not bear you one moment; for you are a burden to it; the creation groans with you; the creature is made subject to the bondage of your corruption, not willingly; the sun don’t willingly shine upon you to give you light to serve sin and Satan; the earth don’t willingly yield her increase to satisfy your lusts; nor is it willingly a stage for your wickedness to be acted upon; the air don’t willingly serve you for breath to maintain the flame of life in your vitals, while you spend your life in the service of God’s enemies.

      YOU ARE NOTHING, YOU SINNER!

    16. unconverted persons

      non-believers?

    17. they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked, his anger is as great towards them as to those that are actually suffering the executions of the fierceness of his wrath in hell, and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger, neither is God in the least bound by any promise to hold ’em up one moment;

      This is a scary depiction of God...I don't think I'd want to devote my life to a being like this.

    18. tis plain and manifest, that whatever pains a natural man takes in religion, whatever prayers he makes, till he believes in Christ, God is under no manner of obligation to keep him a moment from eternal destruction.

      Praying and going through the motions of religion are not enough. You have to truly believe in order to be saved

    19. God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise, to keep any natural man out of hell one moment. God certainly has made no promises either of eternal life, or of any deliverance or preservation from eternal death

      God never promised to save any person from hell. Instead, keeping you out of hell is in exchange for the devotion of your life to Him

    20. Almost every natural man that hears of hell flatters himself that he shall escape it; he depends upon himself for his own security, he flatters himself in what he has done, in what he is now doing, or what he intends to do; every one lays out matters in his own mind how he shall avoid damnation, and flatters [Pg 84]himself that he contrives well for himself, and that his schemes won’t fail.

      It's human nature to believe that the worst won't happen to you because you will get yourself out of it. Edwards says that the ONLY way to avoid going to hell is to be a devout Christian.

    21. They belong to him; he has their souls in his possession, and under his dominion.

      People belong to God, whether they believe in him or not. They are His possession.

    22. God is not altogether such a one as themselves, though they may imagine him to be so.

      God is not like humans, even though people like to think of him as being similar to them

    23. with many that are now in this congregation

      He's even telling his own congregation that God is angry with them!

    24. So that every unconverted man properly belongs to hell; that is his place

      Everyone but devout & proper Christians are going to burn in hell. It sounds like he's trying to scare people into religion.

    25. The sword of divine justice is every moment brandished over their heads, and ’tis nothing but the hand of arbitrary mercy, and God’s mere will, that holds it back.

      People always deserve to be punished for their wicked ways...it is only the "merciful" God that keeps them from punishment

    26. Though hand join in hand, and vast multitudes of God’s enemies combine and associate themselves, they are easily broken in pieces: they are as great heaps of light chaff before the whirlwind; or large quantities of dry stubble before devouring flames.

      Nothing can withstand the all-mighty power of God

    27. There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.

      Wow...harsh!

    28. God won’t hold them up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then, at that very instant, they shall fall to destruction;

      When God decides the time has come, he will let the people fall to a destruction their own making & he will not help them

    29. hat they are liable to fall of themselves, without being thrown down by the hand of another; as he that stands or walks on slippery ground needs nothing but his own weight to throw him down.

      They are liable to fall a lot! They must screw up all the time

    1. sweet,

      He has the word sweet in here 32 times. And four in this paragraph alone.

    2. express, emptied and annihilated; to lie in the dust, and to be full of Christ alone; to love him with a holy and pure love; to trust in him; to live upon him; to serve and follow him; and to be perfectly sanctified and made pure, with a divine and heavenly purity

      Sheesh, keep it in your pants, Edwards. The sexual undertones in here are so noticeable and someone mentioned earlier than Edwards often has a hard time expressing his joy in the Lord. Maybe sexual pleasure is his way to express that.

    3. panted

      Freud

    4. ejaculatory prayer,

      I am aware of the use of this word in order to indicate sudden speech.

      But...

    5. longings

      I feel like i don't have to say it anymore...

    6. sweet, and gentle

      I'm going to be honest, it sounds like he is describing love-making.

    7. sweetly to represent the loveliness and beauty of Jesus Christ

      interesting choice of words to describe jesus

    8. self­righteous pleasure;

      Trying so hard not to see this as a euphemism for sexual awakening but its so difficult

    9. awakening

      I feel like I need to look at the many meanings of this word.

    10. after my first conversion

      awakening?

    11. The very thought of any joy arising in me, on any consideration of my own amiableness, performances, or experiences, or any goodness of heart or life, is nauseous and detestable to me.

      He doesn't like himself very much...guess tut's why he'd rather be "empty of self" and only find joy in Christ

    12. I cannot bear the thoughts of being no more humble than other Christians.

      Why does he think he is more sinful or more deserving of recognition for his religious experiences than other Christians?

    13. that my repentance was nothing to my sin.

      I guess you just have to cry for your whole life, then.

    14. than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite

      So descriptive...

    15. and that I should have by far the lowest place in hell.

      What did he do that was so bad?!

    16. very frequently to such a degree as to hold me in a kind of loud weeping, sometimes for a considerable time together; so that I have often been forced to shut myself up.

      He's really hard on himself for the sins he has committed

    17. The person of Christ appeared ineffably excellent with an excellency great enough to swallow up all thought and conception … which continued as near as I can judge, about an hour; which kept me the greater part of the time in a flood of tears, and weeping aloud.

      He has a powerful religious vision

    18. I love to think of coming to Christ, to receive salvation of him, poor in spirit, and quite empty of self, humbly exalting him alone; cut off entirely from my own root, in order to grow into, and out of Christ; to have God in Christ to be all in all; and to live by faith in the Son of God, a life of humble, unfeigned confidence in him.

      He wants to be nothing but a follower of Christ. He doesn't want any individuality...he'd rather be "empty of self"

    19. I felt a harmony between something in my heart, and those sweet and powerful words. I seemed often to see so much light exhibited by every sentence, and such a refreshing food communicated, that I could not get along in reading; often dwelling long on one sentence, to see the wonders contained in it; and yet almost every sentence seemed to be full of wonders…

      That's a powerful reaction to reading...a lot of Edwards' descriptions seem over the top. He sounds like a lovesick puppy over Christianity.

    20. The soul of a true Christian

      Does he see himself as a "holy man" because of his feelings towards Christ? Who is he to judge the "soul of a true Christian"?

    21. God’s excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in every thing; in the sun, moon, and stars; in the clouds, and blue sky; in the grass, flowers, trees; in the water, and all nature; which used greatly to fix my mind.

      He's entranced by the beauty of the world, and credits all of it to God

    22. that I know not how to express

      He doesn't know how to express many of these feelings

    23. an inward sweetness, that would carry me away, in my contemplations.

      He seems to be quite infatuated with Christ

    24. And my mind was greatly engaged to spend my time in reading and meditating on Christ, on the beauty and excellency of his person, and the lovely way of salvation by free grace in him.

      By studying and meditating on the works of Christ, one can find salvation?

    25. As I read the words, there came into my soul, and was as it were diffused through it, a sense of the glory of the Divine Being; a new sense, quite different from any thing I ever experienced before Never any words of scripture seemed to me as these words did.

      He has a religious epiphany/awakening/calling from reading the words of the Bible.

    26. I was thus convinced, not in the least imagining at the time, nor a long time after, that there was any extraordinary influence of God’s Spirit in it; but only that now I saw further, and my reason apprehended the justice and reasonableness of it. However, my mind rested in it; and it put an end to all those cavils and objections.

      The power of God overcomes those doubts in his mind?

    27. my mind had been full of objections against the doctrine of God’s sovereignty, in choosing whom he would to eternal life, and rejecting whom he pleased; leaving them eternally to perish, and be everlastingly tormented in hell. It used to appear like a horrible doctrine to me.

      Questioning the Christian religion because of the ways in which it portrays God

    28. I felt a spirit to part with all things in the world, for an interest in Christ.

      Nothing but Christ matters

    29. I was brought wholly to break off all former wicked ways, and all ways of known outward sin; and to apply myself to seek salvation, and practice many religious duties; but without that kind of affection and delight which I had formerly experienced.

      His inner turmoil results in a reconciliation with God

    30. in which he brought me nigh to the grave, and shook me over the pit of hell.

      visions of God trying to scare him back to being faithful

    31. a pleurisy

      a sickness?

    32. and returned like a dog to his vomit

      What a comparison!

    33. and had much self­righteous pleasure; and it was my delight to abound in religious duties.

      Self-righteous pleasure doesn't seem very Christian

    34. I used to pray five times a day in secret

      Why in secret?