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).
Yahweh is Israel’s crown, and vice versa. Continue Reading »
Ancient curse texts offer a clue to the meaning of sacrifice. Continue Reading »
Research project for an enterprising intellectual historian with an interest in theology. Continue Reading »
God creates with His fingers. Continue Reading »
It’s not entirely clear who is marrying whom in Isaiah 62. Continue Reading »
Bergson’s “duration” sounds like timelessness, but it’s the opposite. It’s the de-spatialization of time. Continue Reading »
When John ascends to heaven, he steps into the middle of a continuous worship service in a transcendent temple (Revelation 4). Twenty-four heavenly priests encircle a throne that is banded by a rainbow, where “one enthroned” sparkles like sardius and jasper above four living creatures. In front of the throne, the seven Spirits burn like lamps, brightening a sea of crystalline glass. When the cherubim say the Sanctus, the elders prostrate themselves and shout the worthiness of the one on the throne at the center of it all. Continue Reading »
Modern theologians try to scrape off the “Assyrianism” of the Bible as much as the “Hellenism.” Continue Reading »
Science is blind and deaf to its own aestheticism. Continue Reading »
The media reports anti-Christian persecution as gender discrimination. Continue Reading »
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