Name: Art Boulet
Occupation: Lifetime Student. I am currently pursuing my M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary. I graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary this past May with an M.A. in Religion with a Biblical Studies emphasis.
Academic Interests: The Hebrew, Aramaic, Ugaritic, and Akkadian language; the literature and civilizations of the ancient Near East; the Hebrew Psalter; the reception history of the Hebrew Bible; textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible; issues surrounding the way people understand the inerrancy, inspiration, and canonization of the Christian Scriptures.
Family Life: The husband of Elizabeth Hohl-Boulet. The son of William and Ruth Boulet. The brother of Jessica and Jennifer Boulet.
Hobbies: Watching and reading about Red Sox baseball; playing basketball, soccer, and golf; reading interesting books on a wide variety of subjects outside of my academic interests such as physics, string theory, chaos theory, libertarianism, and conspiracy theories.
Favorite Films: Helvetica. Alice in Wonderland, Pi, Boondock Saints, The Emperor’s Club, Christopher Guest films, Wes Anderson films, and documentaries. My guilty pleasure is any film with Martin Lawrence. He kills me.
Favorite Music: The Doors, Ben Harper, Phish, Led Zeppelin, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, The Grateful Dead, moe., and Cher.
I welcome all email correspondence, which you can partake in by clicking here.
5 February 2007 at 9.33 pm
excellent review-article/paper on “Misquoting Jesus”
thanks
Serge
13 April 2007 at 8.32 am
What happened to the happy Art? The new pic makes you look serious. BTW, I like the Van Gogh in the background. I prefer Starry Night to the Cafe Terrace at Night and Starry Night over the Rhone.
From the internet:
Van Gogh painted Starry Night while in an Asylum at Saint-Remy in 1889. During Van Gogh’s younger years (1876-1880) he wanted to dedicate his life to evangelization of those in poverty. Many believe that this religious endeavor may be reflected in the eleven stars of the painting. In Genesis 37:9 the following statement is made:
“And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance [express homage] to me.”
25 April 2007 at 10.01 am
Thank You
17 May 2007 at 7.41 am
You have posted my copyrighted photo no your blog without my permission and without giving me credit for the photo. I allow bloggers to use my images providing they give me credit for them and provide a link to my website. Image is the dramatic cloud photo associated with the Genesis blog.
Yours truly,
Jorn Olsen
21 May 2007 at 1.08 am
Sorry Jorn. I just added the credit and linked to your site. Love the photos!
24 October 2007 at 12.47 pm
Are you able to come up here on Monday to the Acts 29 meeting?
5 December 2007 at 2.31 am
DEAR MR. BOULET; I WAS SURFING THE WEBSITE
FOR UNDERSTANDING THE HEBREW LANGUAGE
AND CAME ACROSS YOUR SITE. MY HUSBAND AND
I PASTOR A SMALL MESSIANIAC CONGREGATION IN
UPSTATE NEW YORK CALLED THE HOUSE OF ZION. WE ALSO HOST A RADIO PROGRAM CALLED
UNDERSTANDING MESSIANIAC THEOLOGY WHERE
WE INVITE GUESTS ON TO TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING AND ALMOST ANYTHING THAT RELATES TO JESUS-YESHUA IN A HEBREW CONTEXT. MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE EXPLORING AND APPRECIATING THE HEBRAIC ROOTS OF THEIR CHRISTIAN FAITH AND WE ARE
TRYING TO FILL A NEED ON OUR RADIO PROGRAM
TO HELP THE RADIO LISTENING AUDIENCE UNDERSTANDING MORE ACCURATELY HOW VERY
IMPORTANT IT IS TO UNDERSTANDING THEIR
BIBLE IN A HEBRAIC CONTEXT. HENCE, WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WOULD YOU BE A GUEST
SPEAKER ON OUR RADIO SHOW, UNDERSTANDING MESSIANIAC THEOLOGY. THE
STATION IS WHAZ 97.3 FM IN COHOES, NEW YORK.
WE PRERECORD OUR PROGRAMS. THEY AIR
EVERY SATURDAY FROM 4;00 TO 4;30 PM. THE
TOPIC WE’D BE INTERESTED IN YOU SPEAKING
ON IS THE ANCIENT HEBREW LANGUAGE AND THE
DEAD SEA SCROLLS. WE CAN BE REACHED AT
518-673-2382 ANYTIME AFTER 6;00 PM., OR IF YOU
PREFER, CAN EMAIL ME. I LOOK FORWARD TO
YOUR RESPONSE. HAVE A GREAT DAY.
PASTOR DENISE E. ALLEN
14 January 2008 at 8.55 am
Ha! I call it “the magical prayer” also. Or sometimes “the little magic Jesus prayer.” But not in front of my Baptist family (am now Anglican).
I found your blog via my Google blog alert for N.T. Wright. I very much appreciate what you said about Bishop Wright’s heart and what it means that he put off the fourth scholarly tome in order to finish the “For Everyone” series. I totally agree.
AND…we are a devoted Mac family. I am sending your blog to my hubs, and you are definitely getting a subscription in my reader.
Peace,
Sherri Edman
27 January 2008 at 8.13 am
Dear Mr. Boulet;
Hope you get a chance to respond to my email. Wrote
several months ago and did not receive a response.
I know you are quite busy but am still interested in
having you talk on our christian radio program in the
upstate new york area. The program is understanding
messianiac theology. I would send you the questions
in advance so that there would be no surprises. So
far we have interviewed several very well known
jewish messianiac rabbis who are highly qualified and gifted theologians. WHAZ Christian Radio has
been broadcasting for over 85 year. They are located
in Cohoes, NY. Their website is http://www.whaz.com. Hope to hear from you soon. Blessings, Pastor Denise
13 February 2008 at 7.45 am
Peace Arthur,
An interesting blog you have here. God willing, I will be stopping by in the future.
Abdur Rahman
14 February 2008 at 10.11 pm
Only lawyers can add esq. to the end of their names. Or were you being sacrastic. How do you reconcile Piper and Wright?
18 February 2008 at 4.19 pm
Holiday at Sea: Certified Public Accountants can also add Esq. after their names. That is what I was referring to.
I love Piper when it comes to his books like Desiring God and Future Grace.
When it comes to his critiques of Wright, I simply disagree with Piper. Thus far I have not read a critique of Wright that addresses the vast amount of research laid out in The New Testament and the People of God. To be fair, that critique would be a massive undertaking. But if you want to thoroughly critique Wright’s points, you have to critique how he got there. Piper fails in doing this.
19 February 2008 at 2.01 pm
Nice blog. I have added it to my RSS reader.
By the way, according to the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, “esquire” is “an unofficial title of respect, having no precise significance.” Although it is usually used by lawyers in the US, there is nothing that says a non-lawyer cannot use it. In Britain, for example, it is often used by people of lower status who have managed to obtain a higher status (i.e., esquire = local boy makes good).
1 March 2008 at 9.30 am
went to class too* little
3 March 2008 at 9.55 pm
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27 March 2008 at 9.07 am
Art,
Found you on Ray Comfort’s blog…didn’t know you were working with steve and geoff (sp?). My brother in-law Rob Burns is the lead pastor at ReaLife Church in Bridesburg (another Acts 29 church). My wife and I just left there actually to take a part-time youth pastor position in Huntingdon Valley. Anyhow, I’m at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield (somewhat closely related to Westminster). Just wanted to connect with ya man. Praise God you are in Kensington. It needs Jesus like a coffee addict needs expresso. Keep in touch,
j.
27 March 2008 at 6.17 pm
Great to find another who loves both Reformed Theology and the Red Sox! Sorry for your present grief.
29 March 2008 at 3.32 pm
Ok, esquire. After several weeks I found your comment in response to my comment. Here’s my question, if there is no future in justification, then on what basis do we stand righteous before God?
30 March 2008 at 2.37 pm
longing: Wright does not, to my knowledge, state that there is no future in justification. So I’m not quite sure if your question is really appropriate to the issue of Piper vs. Wright.
Wright definitely stresses the current application of justification, but he also understands that there will be a final justification.
30 March 2008 at 9.19 pm
Oh, Sorry. It was someone else in another blog who said “there is no future in justification,” a play on the title of Piper’s book about the subject. After seeing these discussions on the internet, I informed my reading (and pastor) husband who got Piper’s book… and never finished it. I’ll have to get him to do so and summarize the arguments for me. As a working and sometimes blogging mom, I haven’t found time to read it.
6 April 2008 at 1.17 pm
I just read your “about me” page and found out the reason why I was mysteriously drawn to your blog – you’re a Red Sox fan! I, too, am a life-long citizen of the Nation.
I have other things in common with you as well. I’m a WTS alum and big fan of the biblical studies department. Of course, Pete Enns does have a major flaw from our perspective — his being a citizen of the Empire. Incidentally, how many years do you get in purgatory for liking the Yankees?
BTW, the name I typically go by is Alex(ander) Burgess (Manlius is my middle name). I pastor a Congregational church in Massachusetts and teach at a Christian school in New Hampshire.
9 April 2008 at 5.57 pm
Art, I am curious… do you hold to a strict view of the Regulative Principle?
Yogi
9 April 2008 at 6.00 pm
Yogi: If by ’strict’ you mean ‘Psalms only,’ then no.
13 April 2008 at 2.57 pm
Hi
This is random… just wanted to give a shout out b/c I see that you go to Westminster. I moved out from Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia) to Chicago last May.. and I once went to college in Lakeland, Florida. How odd… you’ve a sister in Chicago, you go to school a few miles from where I used to live, and you grew up in the town where I once went to college.
Blessings on your journey!
15 April 2008 at 10.47 am
Hi Arthur,
Excellent Blog and intro. Your interests are diverse yet deep. I am much the same way.
Things we have in common: Jesus, openness, finding biblical studies resonate along with Jewish interpretation, membership in the PCA ( I am also a former ordained pastor in the Calvary Chapel gang and Deacon in the PCUSA).
My own love for Reformned Theology (or most of it…ahem..) came through the side door. A psychology major, I found “Christian” psychology both thin and unbiblical. It was the English Puritans who seemed to understand spiritual depression and a host of other maladies the best.
Any way, enough for now. I am at a PCA church plant in Marin County (20 minutes north of San Francisco), but am really more of what my friend David Fetcho calls a “feral Christian”. My daily main site is also a blog http://www.azotuscafe.wordpress.com. I do creative content, web design, art, writing and out of the box thinking for major companies here and on the East Coast.
Grace,
Mac
25 May 2008 at 2.40 pm
I really thought C.S. Lewis would be up in your favorites. Seems like I rememberonce when you preached you ended up quoting a few pieces of his work, and I thought you were a big fan. By the way I’m Still recovering from the duhh moments I felt in ABF when you were here last.
Jen Overholt
30 May 2008 at 12.30 am
Hey brother just stopped by your blog and have been browsing. I have really enjoyed it. One of my favorite professors went to Westminster and really enjoyed his time there. Now he writes a lot about bridging the gap between Armenians and Calvinists. Anyway, I will stop by again sometime and see what conversations are taking place. Blessings and Shalom
30 May 2008 at 10.40 pm
Stumbled across your blog when looking for an image to include on my review of Tim Keller’s “The Reason for God.”
Had to leave a comment, as I too am a fan of the Boston Red Sox. I do not love the team so much, however, to incessantly watch (endure?) “Fever Pitch.”
Keep up the good work.
11 June 2008 at 2.08 am
Aku berdoa apa yang kamu inginkan dikabulkan Tuhan Yesus.
Amin
11 June 2008 at 7.49 pm
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14 June 2008 at 1.15 pm
Check the bottom of the page at this link to read about first amendment protections for students who are disciplined for off campus postings relating to their institutions:
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/copyright-2002/webpagesfaqs.html
17 June 2008 at 6.21 pm
That is a great story. I just attended the ordination ceremony of my fiance’s mother lastnight into the Methodist Church. It was a moving event, well as much as possible for me, as a Jewish woman.
I to feel the call of God into service, and I suspect I have most of my life, but as it turns our for most people, we tend to ignore it to pursue other things, which never work out. Now that I have three college degrees, I think that instead of going to law school, I will be going to Rabbinical school instead. Shalom to you, and good luck with your studies.
11 July 2008 at 12.35 pm
Arthur Boulet.
I am a man that prides myself on my intelligence(though you are most certainly more intelligent than I), and arrogance. I pride myself on being cynical, and highly egotistical.
Seeing your post, and your story, has made me think about some things, such as the Uniformity of ubiquitous knowledge and worldviews in individual persons. In fact, it struck me that my egoism is an attempt to run away from that apparently absolute observation. I must be an egoist in order to flaunt that observation, as it seems to me that worldviews are infinitely deep and eternal, and thus inescapable. Can the ego undo the eternal?
At the same time, I feel great sadness once more that you use your intelligence to allign yourself with universal wisdom traditions. I feel intelligence such as yours could possible innovate human wisdom into an as yet unforseen form, and that to dwell on agrarian policy and superstition is a detriment to the understanding of the isolation and fear that grips industrialized nations(the very concept of nation is isolationist and egoistic, as well).
So you see, I am troubled by whether I should respect you or laugh at you, even though I am aware that the self is composed of multiple casts of characters, all of which flow from an infinitely rich and deep wisdom tradition, a part of which is hebrew worldviews as well.
But I try to run away from this wisdom tradition, or, at the very least, scorn it(I have my reasons for doing this), and so at the very least, my eyes swell with a great and mighty pity upon looking at your words.
I have a website, a blog, though it is nowhere near as cerebral as yours. It was never meant to be, but rather a flagrant and disrespectful attack on anything and everything( a “sailor’s guidebook”, so to speak), but perhaps you might like to take a look at it. It is fairly new, though.
Also, if you wish to reply to this post, you may e-mail me at “joseluisprogrammerNOSPAM@gmail.com”
The website is: “orebsguild.wordpress.com”
Thank you for listening.
25 July 2008 at 8.57 am
Glad to see you are reading Grogan!
4 August 2008 at 10.04 pm
I prefer “perpetual student.”
6 August 2008 at 8.13 am
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8 August 2008 at 7.41 am
Just came across your blog through the WordPress Hawt Posts, (I think). I have crossed paths with several Westminster grads – mostly in Japan (where I learned Hebrew). Just wanted to say hi and that I will probably visit here again!
8 August 2008 at 7.42 am
. . . forget to leave a link where you can contact me: http://irreligiouslife.wordpress.com
27 August 2008 at 11.51 am
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2 September 2008 at 10.21 am
Hey Art:
Thanks again for the correspondence on I&I…in many rejoinders to various reviews of I&I, Enns has said that he believes a conversation should begin regarding the issues raised in his book. Some of the reviews themselves argue that such a conversation has been going on, many of which Enns leaves out of his book.
Let’s say it was decided a conference would be held to discuss the relationship between the human and divine origin of Scripture. What would you see as the agenda for such a meeting that would get the discussion going that Enns is looking for?
Sola gratia,
Joel
12 September 2008 at 10.16 am
what’s up with the smiley face in the background?
12 September 2008 at 10.33 am
It’s a veiled shout-out to Watchmen, the greatest graphic novel of all time.
12 September 2008 at 10.38 am
ah nice. i just read that recently. looking forward to the movie now.
12 September 2008 at 12.07 pm
How will the Pats do without Brady?
13 September 2008 at 1.02 am
Not well, I’m afraid. I’m guessing 10 wins, but that is optimistic!
10 October 2008 at 11.56 pm
Here I am again, searching for something to read. I saw I could read about you so I did. I take it from your film and music interest, you are 40-50 years, no children, unmarried at this point and 100% committed to your career. I like that. So am i. But I have to admit a little envy at your path over mine in Medicine. I’m younger and formal learning all science but fascinated by your subject matter.
Ok, I’m off to read what you write.
antonio
11 October 2008 at 12.26 am
Antonio: I am actually 64 years old and live in my mother’s basement. I rarely change out of my Star Wars pajamas because I like the footies.
11 October 2008 at 1.50 am
I see. Then perhaps, that explains why (understand this is only my opinion) you have missed the real flaw of Mr. Ehrman’s analysis.
you need to get out more. Get away from the “books”. Shake your money maker a little-have fun and actually get out and help someone. Your not too old.
You can join me in HK if you like. All of Asia, the Pacific rim and beyond is reaping the results of an unregulated market in China–Capitalism unbound. These corporations have been for years, adding a poison, melamine, to milk so it will have a high protein anaylysis. That is because they have watered down the milk. it has just been discovered (no thanks to the government) it damages kidney function. It has killed unknown numbers of children. It has made unknown thousands ill. Many international agencies are here lending help either here or filling in elsewhere to release someone needed.
This and the US financial market are simply two human evils that causes suffering. God didn’t do it.
11 October 2008 at 8.02 am
Antonio: Are you from Nigeria?
11 October 2008 at 9.42 am
Antonio is not Antonio. It’s some DUDE called Jason Kirklin who used to attend WTS as the coolest DUDE you could ever meet. He had a blog called ‘DUDE Where’s My Seminary’ and then shut it down and went corporate. Then he almost got one of my friends fired because he pretended to be our friend and then turned a bunch of emails in to the administration. Also, he lies like a rug and has never apologized for anything that he has done. He’s self-righteous and smug.
Now he’s studying to be a lawyer at Ohio State and still feels the need to mask his IP address through an Asian website and comment on my blog every once in a while under fake names (for instance, Antonio Caetano is a Nobel Laureate from Portugal, not the Pacific Rim).
Then again, if he used his real name it wouldn’t be much different because he is a fake. I’m sure the Moritz College of Law (that is, the Ohio State School of Law) would love to be known for having students like him.
23 October 2008 at 11.50 am
I was curious about your doubt night link, but it isn’t working.
29 April 2009 at 11.19 am
I noticed you’re reading Jacobs’ book, Power and Persuasion . . . from there I noticed that there are some really affordable copies being some on amazon, so I went ahead and checked that one off my wish list by ordering a copy. I’ve skimmed it before, but I’ll be curious to give it a more thorough read. If you’ve got time, go ahead and do some posts on the book. . . . not to add more work for you or anything! I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts though.
22 May 2009 at 12.58 am
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19 October 2009 at 8.38 pm
Hey, I see you have a whole new blog. I’ve been gone for a while. You look like a different person (younger, hipper) in this picture….
20 November 2009 at 6.16 pm
Hi Art ,
On your site you provide the well known quote attributed to Augustine “Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.” Are you sure that it is a direct quote of Augustine? Do you know its actual source? You cite his “Confessions”. Where in his confessions does he actually say that? I would agree that the quote captures the essence of many of his arguments throughout his works; but where does he say that.
Could you please email me a source for this quote or post it on your site next to the quote. It is a highly significant and important quote for those working in the fields of social justice. Thank you very much for your time and consideration
20 November 2009 at 8.38 pm
I’ll look into it for you when I get back from New Orleans on Tuesday.
Sent from my iPhone.
23 November 2009 at 8.20 pm
Thanks Art,
I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
kindest regards