The nations will be saved. They will come to the light (Isaiah 60:3). How? We can work backward through Isaiah.They come into the light that shines from Israel. That light is the light of Yahweh Himself dwelling among and shining through His translucent people.Israel becomes that light after Yahweh . . . . Continue Reading »
“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of Yahweh has risen (zarach) upon you,” Isaiah announces (60:1). It’s a rich statement.Yahweh’s glory is said to “rise” in Deuteronomy 33:2, as the Lord moves from Sinai to Seir with his 10,000 holy ones . . . . Continue Reading »
Psalm 37 is a wisdom Psalm that assures Israel that Yahweh will not let the wicked flourish forever. The faithful should persevere in seemingly fruitless faithfulness because the wicked who spring up like grass will also wither like grass.Part of this assurance is that the Lord will rescue His . . . . Continue Reading »
The NYTBR reviewer of Martin Gardner’s Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardnerrecounts some of Gardner’s many pranks.“Once, a houseguest left behind a single glove at the home of Gardners friend Bob Murray. Murray went to several local department stores until he . . . . Continue Reading »
I have commented in the past on the bizarre Eucharistic imagery that ends Isaiah 49: “And I will feed your oppressors with their own flesh, And they will become drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine; And all flesh will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior, And your Redeemer, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Throughout the 40s of Isaiah, Yahweh promises to do something unprecedented, something new, for Israel. He will bring them from bondage - but he’s done that before. This time, he will bring them back by using Gentiles as agents of Israel’s liberation. That’s a new thing, better . . . . Continue Reading »
Linda Colley doesn’t think that the United Kingdom can remain united. In Acts of Union and Disunion, she following Benedict Anderson’s lead in claiming that nations are Imagined Communities, formed from myths and, as Colley says, “an attractive idea of what they are.”As . . . . Continue Reading »
In his TLS review of Andrew Sanders’s In the Olden Time: Victorians and the British Past, AN Wilson suggests that Dickens was representative of his age in his “open hatred of the post, and his perky lower-middle-class joy in nowadays.”Not all Victorians shared Dickens’s . . . . Continue Reading »
A sketch of a Jensonian critique of historical criticism of Scripture:The Bible must be understood in its historical context. In practice, this means that the Bible’s historical claims are relativized to the discoveries of ancient historical investigation, archaeology, etc. If the bricks and . . . . Continue Reading »
Trinity House Institute is delighted to announce our first annual series of Nevin Lectures. Timothy George, Dean and Professor of Church History at Beeson Divinity School, will deliver four lectures on Sacramental Theology from a Baptist Perspective on February 7-8, 2014 at Trinity Presbyterian . . . . Continue Reading »
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