“Forsake” ( ‘azab ) is one of the key words of Isaiah. It is used 22 times in the prophecy, the number of letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Isaiah is an A to Z of forsaking and forsakenness. The word initially appears in charges against Judah, who has forsaken Yahweh (1:4, 28). . . . . Continue Reading »
INTRODUCTION The first sequence of five “burdens” of Isaiah begins with Babylon (chs. 13-14) and ends with Egypt (chs. 19-20). Isaiah is working backward in redemptive history, from Judah’s future conqueror to Israel’s earliest slave master. THE TEXT “The burden . . . . Continue Reading »
Challenged to explain what he means by the notion that the Father “breaths” the Spirit, Jenson writes: “in the Old Testament ruach often appears as the breath of life, and when it is the breath of God’s life it is a creating wind that blows creatures around like leaves in a . . . . Continue Reading »
In a passionate passage, Farrow enumerates the ways that the church is assaulted for evils that it did more than any other institution to correct - for being misogynist when it “has produced a civilization in which women have enjoyed unprecedented freedom” or for slavery when “for . . . . Continue Reading »
“Insofar as Protestantism denies transubstantiation,” writes Douglas Farrow in Ascension Theology , it collapses into idealism and subjectivism, turns eschatology into utopianism, reduces ecclesiology to secular politics. Without transubstantiation, Protestants appear before God . . . . Continue Reading »
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