In today’s sermon text, Yahweh tells Moses that He performs signs so that Israel can recount His works in the ears of “sons and sons of sons.” A few verses later, Yahweh says that He brings more locusts than “your fathers and the fathers of your fathers have . . . . Continue Reading »
In his Beyond Greed , Brian Rosner makes the arresting claim that God is a contented God. The fact that God has created a world distinct from Himself Rosner takes as a kind of divine self-limitation. Put that to the side, we can still see the contentment of God in the creation account. . . . . Continue Reading »
Creation, Gregory of Nyssa insists, is not eternal: “For we have learned that the heaven and the earth were not from eternity, and will not last to eternity, and thus it is hence clear that those things are both started from some beginning, and will surely cease at some end.” On . . . . Continue Reading »
When I made some sharp comments about Thomas Oord’s book on love a few weeks back, Oord wrote to inform me that he’s written another book that deals more overtly with the themes I found lacking in his other book. Oord conceded that I might remain unsatisfied even then, but I . . . . Continue Reading »
Gregory of Nyssa ( Against Eunomius , 1.15) attacks the notion that the Father has priority in time, and therefore in being, to the Son and Spirit. Of course, Gregory eventually says that intervals of time have no application to God’s life, but before that he challenges the notion that . . . . Continue Reading »
In his response to Faustus’ theories about the relation of hyle and God, Augustine launches into several lyrical passages in praise of the harmony and order of creation. Some selections (from Book 21): “the divine art does not create the universe by simply making its individual . . . . Continue Reading »
Yahweh says “light,” and as soon as the word sounds light appears. God says, “waters divide,” and they are divided. And so on and on throughout the creation week. This is the form of Yahweh’s creating activity: Whatever the word means, that’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Gregory of Nyssa illustrates the incomprehensibility of creation by taking a page from Solomon: “Let, then, the man who boasts that he has attained the knowledge of real existence, interpret to us the real nature of the most trivial object that is before our eyes, that by what is . . . . Continue Reading »
Angel F. Mendez Montoya’s The Theology of Food: Eating and the Eucharist (Illuminations: Theory & Religion) is an explosive little book. His “alimentary theology” is not just a theology of food; like Jeremy Begbie’s “theology with music,” Mendez Montoya . . . . Continue Reading »
In a chapter on providence and politics in The Providence of God: Deus Habet Consilium , Charles Mathewes contrasts a modern ” ex nihilo ” view of human action with the view that human action is “responsible,” not only in the sense of moral responsibility but also in the . . . . Continue Reading »
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