In a post last week, I criticized some aspects of Nevin’s and Calvin’s sacramental theology. Jonathan Bonomo, author of Incarnation and Sacrament: The Eucharistic Controversy Between Charles Hodge and John Williamson Nevin , responded by arguing that Nevin and Calvin would both agree . . . . Continue Reading »
My friends tell me that my name has been invoked in various web skirmishes concerning Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism, sometimes by people, including friends, who claim that I nurtured them along in their departure from the Protestant world. My friends also hinted that it would be good . . . . Continue Reading »
INTRODUCTION During the Assyrian crisis (Isaiah 38:6), Hezekiah falls sick. He prays, and Yahweh heals him. At the same time, he shows his treasures to Babylonians, a prelude to Babylon’s later invasion. THE TEXT “In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, . . . . Continue Reading »
Isaiah 37:14-38 is arranged in a simple chiasm: A. Hezekiah prays in the temple, vv 14-20 B. Isaiah prophesies concerning Sennacherib, vv 21-29 C. Isaiah gives a sign concerning Judah, vv 30-32 B’. Isaiah prophesies concerning Sennacherib, vv 33-35 A’. Sennacherib killed in the temple . . . . Continue Reading »
Adam and Eve seize the forbidden fruit before it’s time. When they cover themselves, they again jump the gun - using leaves to hide their shameful nakedness. They aren’t ready for that either, and the Lord gives them skins of a sacrificed animal to cover. From that time until the Last . . . . Continue Reading »
The promises you’ll make in a moment are utterly open-ended. You can’t be sure what will happen later today, much less for the rest of your life. You can take these vows confidently only if you entrust yourselves to the God who is Alpha and Omega, the God who is before every past and . . . . Continue Reading »
Griffiths ( Song of Songs (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible) ) suggests that we must interpret the Song’s bodily imagery through the theological lens of Paul’s teaching concerning the body of Christ. “The complex and fluid relations of one body part to another – of . . . . Continue Reading »
In his study of Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge (p. 11), Lawrence Kramer describes the shift from modern to postmodern in terms of speech-act theory. Modernism privileged the constative and subordinated the performative; postmodernism deconstructs the hierarchy and especially highlights . . . . Continue Reading »
Griffiths argues ( Song of Songs (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible) , pp. 30-31) that the analogy between human love and God’s gift of love to us is found in “the sheer excess of human sexual love, its radical disproportion to its biological and social functions, its deranged . . . . Continue Reading »
Paul Griffiths brilliantly analyzes the lovers’ obsession with one another’s bodies in the Song ( Song of Songs (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible) , p. 30): “Lovers are interested in one another’s bodies, indeed absorbed by them. They gaze into one another’s . . . . Continue Reading »
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