Peter J. Leithart

In his intriguing interpretation of the exorcism in Mark 5, Nick Perrin notes that the allusions to the Roman occupation go beyond the demonic name “Legion.” The swine, he suggests, supplied the Roman garrison in nearby Hippos. By sending the pigs over the cliff into the sea, Jesus is . . . . Continue Reading »

In my From Silence to Song , I highlight the fact that David sits in prayer before Yahweh at the ark-tent. David is enthroned along with Yahweh, a hint of what will come with David’s greater Son. Nehemiah provides another example. When he hears about Jerusalem’s ruins, he sits, weeps, . . . . Continue Reading »

A little Christmas fluff, inspired by a 2008 NPR report. Thanks to my son Woelke for pointing me to the original story. Act 1 Phone ringing on an empty desk. Enter Santa Jeff, dressed in a red jacket and wearing a white beard. He answers the phone. Santa Jeff : AORBS, Santa Jeff speaking. Pauses. . . . . Continue Reading »

Perrin again: He argues that Jesus announced and envisioned a Jubilee, not a spiritualized Jubilee but an actual restoration of property, tangible property, to the dispossessed poor. One mechanism, Perrin argues, was hospitality: “Jesus enjoins a collective but voluntary trickle-down or . . . . Continue Reading »

In his highly stimulating Jesus the Temple , Nick Perrin examines Jesus’ statements about “heavenly treasure” in the light of the “counter-temple” agenda that Perrin argues is central to Jesus’ work. The contrast that Jesus draws is not between a treasure room in . . . . Continue Reading »

As a follow-up to my Un-Naked God post, friend and former student Josh Stevenson offers this summary of creation’s progression from glory to glory: God alone >> Created earth as glory of God Man (alone) as glory of earth >> Woman as glory of Man Christ as glory of Woman >> . . . . Continue Reading »

Warren Gage, the always-stimulating Professor of Old Testament at Knox Seminary, sent along the following to post here. The remainder of this post is from Warren. The heart of the Christian gospel is the penal, substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ. As we should expect, this most salvific of . . . . Continue Reading »

INTRODUCTION Assyria threatened, and in response the kings of Israel and Aram formed an anti-Assyrian alliance and tried to force Ahaz of Judah to join them. But the real threat to Judah was her own unbelief.THE THE TEXT “Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of . . . . Continue Reading »

Prof. John Nugent has published a detailed “Yoderian rejoinder” to my Defending Constantine here: http://erb.kingdomnow.org/featured-a-yoderian-rejoinder-to-leitharts-defending-constantine-vol-3-46/ My response will be published there, but for those who can’t wait I offer it here. . . . . Continue Reading »

John MacArthur’s latest, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ , is an intriguing, historically informed meditation on a central biblical concept that has been obscured by translators who soften up the image by translation ebed and doulos as “servant” rather than . . . . Continue Reading »