Isaiah 24:1-6 has an intricate structure, much of it with a numerological thrust. In the opening verse, Yahweh devastates the earth in a fourfold act - emptying ( baqaq ), laying it waste ( balaq ), twisting (’ avah ) its face, and scattering ( putz ) its inhabitants. The four verbs reinforce . . . . Continue Reading »
In a 1995 piece in Critical Inquiry , Susan Fraiman defends Austen from the charges directed at her in Edward Said’s famous study of Austen and imperialism. Fraiman doesn’t think Said is a very careful reader: His “rendering of Austen is . . . enabled, I would argue, by . . . . Continue Reading »
Deepak Lal again, criticizing the leftist moralism of the NGOs and the rightwing moralism of neoconservatives: “The attempt to create an international moral order, either by the transnational route advocated by the global salvationists [NGOs] or by the exercise of U.S. imperial power as . . . . Continue Reading »
Social Gospeller Josiah Strong argued for a vigorous US foreign policy, but insisted it had to be carried out on a proper basis. He rejects Machiavelli whose disciples “tell us that the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount have nothing to do with politics, either national or . . . . Continue Reading »
Deepak Lal ( In Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order ) argues that after WW II, the US missed the opportunity to adopt unilateral free trade policies, as Britain did in the 19th century. “Rather than follow the correct British policy of adopting unilateral free trade and then allowing . . . . Continue Reading »
Like all Trinitarian theologians, Jenson is finally ecstatic: “Our enjoyment of God is that we are taken into the triune singing. Perhaps we may say that we are allowed to double the parts. And here too we must insist on concreteness. That the proclamation and prayer of the church regularly . . . . Continue Reading »
In the first volume of his Systematic Theology , Jenson notes that the reason why the church has been “lured” by impassibility is the conviction, which Jenson emphatically affirms” that God is “not subjected to created time’s contingencies” and that no . . . . Continue Reading »
INTRODUCTION Isaiah 24-27 constitutes a section of the prophecy often known as the “little apocalypse.” Isaiah sees the whole world devastated and ruined. Not only earth, but the whole of creation is coming apart at the seams (cf. Isaiah 24:21-23). THE TEXT “Behold, the Lord makes . . . . Continue Reading »
Romans 10:9-10: If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. A baptismal liturgy is an appropriate place for . . . . Continue Reading »
For the Greek philosophers, working with matter was menial, a task for slaves and other non-citizen workers. Commerce was dirty and repulsive. The only true work of a gentleman, the only true work of a prince or nobleman, was intellectual, philosophizing, which is to say, doing nothing. That is not . . . . Continue Reading »
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