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Phil Dorroll

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Assoc. Prof. of Religion at Wofford College in South Carolina; research on Islamic and Orthodox Christian theology in Turkish and Arabic; supports 🇺🇦

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · Dec 16

I made a starter pack for specialists in Eastern Christian Studies- check it out, share with others, and let me know who else to add!

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 7h

Theology book you’ve held onto the longest

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 7h

Expert level approach to WNC

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James @ashevillepictures.bsky.social · 9h

Good times on the Parkway this AM

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 12h

Hagia Sophia in Bizye (modern Vize/Kırklareli) in Eastern Thrace was probably the city’s cathedral. It seems to have been the burial site of St. Mary the Younger, whose life is described in her Vita (saintly biography).

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a really good point

Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 1d

This is really helpful- thanks for this!

Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 1d

Credit to @kyletrow.bsky.social for setting me straight on this one

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 1d

What I really was ignorant about was the inherent importance of being a pastor and not a priest in some traditions; that’s something I’m glad to understand now, previously I assumed it was just a linguistic convention etc

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 1d

I was one of these tbh 😬; glad to have better understanding now

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 1d

Arabic walked so that Ottoman could run tho tbf

Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 1d

The cool thing about Ottoman is even though the basic syntax is Turkish you can also toss in Arabic and Persian grammatical structures as well, so you get single texts that have several levels of meaning in several different languages

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 1d

Ottoman was a better language for poetry than classical Arabic <runs>

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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James @ashevillepictures.bsky.social · 1d

A classic autumnal sunset on the Parkway last night

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely; but iirc these denominations had roots in the Great Awakening, which was the origin of American evangelicalism in general

Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 2d

I think you could argue that the Black church was the original American evangelical liberation theology

Mina @minerva1.bsky.social · 3d

Evangelicals don’t have a liberation theology.

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 2d

View from Mt. Mitchell, highest peak east of the Mississippi

Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 2d

Local ice cream place absolutely killing it these days

Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 3d

View from Graybeard Mountain Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway

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Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social · 4d

Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows):

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 4d

Mosaic of a cross with a starry sky at the Archbishop’s Chapel (Museo Arcivescovile) in Ravenna

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 5d

Fresco of a saint, probably St. Anthony in chapel of Kalenderhane Mosque, once dedicated to the Virgin Kyriotissa

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 4d

Exceptions can always be made

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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 4d

Classical Vienna. -- Window at 22 Schoenbrunner Schlossallee. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 5d

Me (‘85) using the internet

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Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 5d

“There’s a town called ‘ver-sai’ in Indiana??”

“No there’s a town called ‘ver-sales’ in Indiana”