Anthony Dekker: Essays

Here are some miscellaneous essays of mine (I also have many work-related publications, and am busy at present on several spare-time writing projects). Permission is given to distribute the non-fiction essays freely for non-profit use, provided that they are not altered without the author's permission, and that the copyright notices remain intact. The author can be contacted at dekker@ACM.org.

• Fictional snippets from my defunct blog (2006):
  • Miss Universe 2006
  • Dark Waltz
  
  
• Love: an informal translation of I Corinthians 13 (October 2005)
  
  
• History of the Christian Church, Part II: 300 to 599 AD (June 2005) – Incomplete
  
  
• History of the Christian Church, Part I: 30 to 299 AD (Easter 2005)
  
  
• Possible Worlds, Belief, and Modal Logic: a Tutorial (October 2004)
  
  
• “While We Were Still Sinners” (September 2004)
  
  
• “I’m Just Not Good Enough!” (August 2004)
  
  
• Four Characters from Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” (April 2004)
  
  
• Four Precious Gifts: Perspectives on Reason and Free Will (December 2003)
  
  
• A Prayer for the Body of Christ (October 2003)
  
  
• Created in the Image of God: Some Reflections (August 2003)
  
  
• The Prayers of Dante: Reflections on the Purgatorio (June 2003) – Most popular essay
  • My Map of Purgatory is available in the Wikimedia Commons under the GNU Free Documentation License
  
  
• Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” and the Gospel: some thoughts (Jan 2003)

The illustration above represents the traditional five elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and the Quintessence, related by Plato to the five Platonic solids.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. (John 1:1,2)