My oldest son once spent a summer on staff at a Scout reservation. Underneath his tent platform lived a family of skunks. They would amble by, mama and her kits (baby skunks are kits, as baby goats are kids), with nary a hint of animosity and rarely a spark of curiosity. Who knows how many summers . . . . Continue Reading »
It is not only kings and princes who bear political office. As those created in God’s image, we too bear political authority. Continue Reading »
John famously begins his Gospel with a piece of theology: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Matthew starts with a genealogy. John celebrates Advent with a hymn, Matthew with a list. For John, Jesus is the Word of creation in human flesh. For Matthew, he is a name. Continue Reading »
John Walton’s proposal to read Genesis 1 in ancient terms is unconvincing. Continue Reading »
Registration for Trinity House’s Trinity Term course on Genesis is now open. Continue Reading »
What is the promise that Abram believed unto justification? Continue Reading »
Jesus is the greater Jacob who rolls away a great stone to offer water to the world. Further reflections at the Trinity . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Parker is no creationist, and he has little patience for intelligent design. Yet he thinks that Genesis 1’s account of the origin of the universe is scientifically accurate. He asks “Could it be that the creation account on page one of Genesis was written as it is because that is . . . . Continue Reading »
“Longinus” describes the sublime as “the echo of a great soul” (de Sublimitate, 9.2)). The sublime can be expressed in silence or in speech, and it can be found the terrible, awe-inspiring acts of the gods.But Longinus worries that Homeric accounts of the gods “if they . . . . Continue Reading »
Over many decades and in voluminous writings, René Girard has elaborated a theory of sacrifice, scapegoating, and violence that purports to unveil things hidden from the foundations of the world. He has become a guru, not least to Christian theologians eager to formulate non-violent versions of . . . . Continue Reading »
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