INTRODUCTION Godly, effective parenting is parenting molded by the Spirit. Effective parents are Pentecostal parents. What does that mean? THE TEXT “I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and . . . . Continue Reading »
In his lucid, concise Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham , Russell Friedman contrasts two different medieval accounts of personal distinction within the Trinity, one rooted in personal relations of opposition and the other rooted in relations of origin or “emanation.” . . . . Continue Reading »
I didn’t find Eric Nelson’s The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought as revolutionary as some of the blurbs indicate, but it is a very intriguing study. Contrary to the standard story of early modern political thought, Nelson argues . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent issue of the TLS reviews Bruce Feiler’s America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story , a study of the influence of Moses on the American political imagination. Everyone from Tom Paine, Benjamin Franklin, and the other Founders to George M.-for-Moses (so described . . . . Continue Reading »
The TLS reviewer of Natasha Walter’s recent Living Dolls notes how pornography “has entered mainstream culture to transform girls into animate versions of the sexist and sexy dolls they embrace in innocent delight.” Walter points to the effect of Barbie dolls on American . . . . Continue Reading »
Simon Blackburn has a somewhat surprisingly admiring review of a biography of RG Collingwood in a recent issue of TNR . Collingwood comes off as very contemporary, very stimulating. In what Blackburn calls a “succinct and perspicuous . . . statement of the public nature of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Stead ( The Intertextuality of Zechariah 1-8 (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) ) points to a number of intertexual connections between Ezekiel 1-11 and the vision of Zechariah 5:5-11. He concludes that the vision of Zechariah is an inversion of the Ezekiel’s vision . . . . Continue Reading »
Zechariah uses the word “lord” or “master” ( adon ) seven times in the first six chapters of his prophecy (1:9, 4:4, 5, 13, 14; 6:4-5). The word appears in the first, the fifth, and the eighth of Zechariah’s night visions, beginning, middle, end. Five of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Zechariah’s scroll brings curses to those who “steal” and “swear falsely in My name” (5:3-4). Those same sins appear together in Leviticus 19, and also, significantly, in Jeremiah 7:9. There, Jeremiah lists thieves and false swearers among the . . . . Continue Reading »
Zechariah’s flying scroll is written with curses. Another place where curses are written down is Numbers 5, the jealousy test for a woman suspected of adultery. The verb “cut off” or “purged” ( naqah ) in Zechariah 5:3 is also used in Numbers 5, to describe . . . . Continue Reading »
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