Peter J. Leithart is President of the Theopolis Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, and an adjunct Senior Fellow at New St. Andrews College. He is author, most recently, of Gratitude: An Intellectual History (Baylor).
The prophetic critique of sacrifice is not a brief for “inner” sacrifice. The critique demands a more outward sacrifice. Continue Reading »
What makes an action a ritual action? Continue Reading »
Circumcision and child sacrifice. Continue Reading »
To the rabbis, impurity was even more contagious than it was for the biblical writers. Continue Reading »
John’s tool of prophecy is a reed that is like a rod. Continue Reading »
What sort of man is Paul that he can die and then rise again while remaining alive? Continue Reading »
Baptism forms the “one” that is heir to the promise to Abraham. Continue Reading »
How humans remake nature. Continue Reading »
Aristotle knew we are social animals. He didn’t know the half of it. Continue Reading »
God has come to the human race many times and in many ways. He came to form Adam from the dust, and he came walking in the garden after Adam sinned. He came to deliver Israel from Egypt, descended on Sinai to give the Law, and led Israel through the wilderness into the land. He came in judgment when his people polluted the holy land, and he came to stir the heart of Cyrus to let them go. Biblical history is filled with advents of God. Continue Reading »
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