Peter J. Leithart

In an article examining the use of the OT in Revelation, Steve Moyise notes the extensive parallels between Ezekiel and Revelation. This is not just a matter of scattered allusions; rather, Revelation overall, and in specific sections, follows the order of Ezekiel quite precisely. For instance: God . . . . Continue Reading »

In a 1988 study in Past and Present , Charles Zika examines processions and pilgrimages in 15th-century Germany as sites of conflict between the extra-clerical use of relics and the clerically-dependent uses of the host. Devotion to the host was promoted, he argues, in order to bring lay devotion . . . . Continue Reading »

Thomas says that Christ merited exaltation. In each of teh fourr senses that His humiliation merited exaltation, there is the same poetic symmetry: His passion and death merited exaltation; His descent merited ascent; his shame merited exaltation; and His submission to human judges merited an . . . . Continue Reading »

Christ’s sacrifice was a sacrifice of flesh, Thomas admits, but he goes on to say that it was a suitable sacrifice because it was God’s own sacrifice. The thought appears to be this: The Son takes our flesh, and by His sacrifice (which includes death and resurrection for Thomas) He . . . . Continue Reading »

In her The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity , recently republished by Baylor, Debora Shuger examines, among other things, how Renaissance writers attending to biblical texts spread out in all directions: “In the Renaissance, discussions of Christ’s agony in . . . . Continue Reading »

In his recently republished New Creation , the late, delightful Herbert McCabe defends the priesthood of the plebs as roundly as anyone could want. Citing Hebrews, he claims that “there is an essential difference between the Christian community and the community of the Old Law, or any other . . . . Continue Reading »

In his Karl Barth and the Problem of War, and Other Essays on Barth , Yoder examines places where Barth’s views on pacifism and war conflict with Barth’s insights in other areas of theology. Yoder gives us a Barthian critique of Barth. One crucial point concerns natural revelation: . . . . Continue Reading »

Theologians have long been fascinated by the way iron takes on the properties of fire, and have used the analogy for all sorts of things. Luther said that the Word confers its qualities to the soul He indwells as the fire confers heat to iron; some church fathers use the iron in the fire as a . . . . Continue Reading »

The heart of Heidegger’s critique of the technological society is his notion of “standing reserve,” the idea that matter is just there, without an inherent order or qualities, plastic to whatever shapes the whims of human will want to impose on it. He says, “Everywhere . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s obvious that, in Heidegger’s terms, human art remake earth -stone is remade into sculpture, the components of paint into a scene or a portrait. Heidegger also insists that art remakes world, reshapes the human environment by redrawing boundaries of earth and world. Heidegger . . . . Continue Reading »