In his introduction to Michel de Certeau’s Heterologies: Discourse on the Other (Theory and History of Literature) , Wlad Godzich gives as concise a summary of Levinas as you are likely to find: “Against a notion of the truth as the instrument of a mastery being exercised by the knower . . . . Continue Reading »
“As the Scripture says, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38). As the Scripture says ? Where? Edmee Kingsmill ( The Song of Songs and the Eros of God: A Study in Biblical Intertextuality (Oxford Theological Monographs) ) suggests the Song of Songs . . . . Continue Reading »
Micah 3:1-3: And I said, Hear now, heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice? You who hate good and love evil, who tear off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones, and who eat the flesh of my people, strip off their skin from . . . . Continue Reading »
Romans 6:4, 12-13: We have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we might walk in newness of life . . . . Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts, and do not go . . . . Continue Reading »
In worship and prayer, how do we go to God? Groveling, wormy, filled with anxiety and fear? As abject sinners? As those who are dead? That is not how Paul tells us to go. We are to present ourselves not as those who are dead, but as “those alive from the dead” . . . . Continue Reading »
In the centuries since the Reformation, the phrase “priesthood of all believers” has become a Protestant slogan. For the Reformers, the idea was that every Christian, by virtue of baptism and faith, has the same status before God. Every member of the body of Christ serves . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Watson reads Hamlet through the lens of Eamon Duffy’s classic “stripping of the altars” thesis. In the play, altars are replaced by tables, the arras, the bed, and the stage spectacle takes the place of Catholic liturgical spectacle: “it is not the . . . . Continue Reading »
By day, Mike Bull is a graphic designer in the Blue Mountains outside of Sidney, Australia. But his real passion is biblical theology, and he has produced a primer on biblical theology and biblical structure entitled Bible Matrix: An Introduction to the DNA of the Scriptures , available on . . . . Continue Reading »
Micah 3 appears to be a distinct unit of the prophecy (but see below). It begins with “And I said,” and chapter 4 begins with a disjunctive “it will come about in the last days” (4:1). Within chapter 3, there is an obvious inclusio between verses 1 and 9. Both . . . . Continue Reading »
In 1881, Edward Payson Vining wrote an innovative book that promised to unravel The Mystery of Hamlet . When Vining had weighed all the evidence, he came to the only reasonable conclusion: Hamlet was a woman. Not, mind you, that Shakespeare conceived of a female prince: “It is not even . . . . Continue Reading »
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