In this episode of the Theopolis Podcast, Peter Leithart and I discuss the readings for the twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost: Amos 5:6-7, 10-15, Hebrews 3:12-19, Mark 10:17-22.
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Today I discuss Yoram Hazony’s stimulating new release, The Virtue of Nationalism.
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Today’s question: “Jephthah? Human sacrifice or something else?”
For more on this question, see John Barach’s lectures on Joshua, Judges, and Ruth and James Jordan’s commentary on Judges.
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Today’s question: “What is your opinion on close-knit churches that teach members to not become close friends with outsiders/heathens? They teach to be courteous and you can have friendly acquaintances with outsiders, but teach that friendship with the world is enmity with God.”
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Today’s question: “Could the “elect lady” of 2 John be a woman pastor/elder [see this article]?”
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A week or so ago, I posted about Three Things, a new project that a couple of friends have just begun. They have just featured a piece of mine, ‘Opened Eyes on an Unveiled Word’, in which I offer some fundamental principles for the Christian reading of Scripture.
The glory of Scripture, once seen, changes us, transforming us into the image of God’s Son. This is not seen in literal shining faces, but it should be manifested in shining lives that cannot but betray the fact that we have seen Jesus. Whereas God once delivered his Law upon tablets of stone to an unfaithful people, now, upon the tablets of softened human hearts, he is writing his Law by his Spirit, producing lives that display Christ’s glory.
The writing of Scripture doesn’t find its true purpose in marks in ink on a page, but in the marks of Christ on human lives. We must hear Scripture as those who expect to encounter the glory of Christ within it, who lay bare our lives for God’s writing of his Law upon us, and as those who, with shining lives, will shed forth a glorious reflected light testifying to the eternal Light of the Son. As the light of our lives illumines the darkened corners of a fallen world, burning bright against the night until the dawning of the Everlasting Day, the true end of the Scripture will be known.
Read the whole piece here.
Today’s question:
I’m wondering to what degree you believe that the original authors of the text(s) were deliberately employing [analogies, types, themes, metaphors, “word pictures”, etc.]? Was the intellectual complexity that you perceive present in the original authorship context, or has the Spirit has orchestrated a significantly bigger picture than those authors could have ever intended?
For example, on your recent answer to the Pool of Bethsaida question, you draw attention to and relevance from the 38-year infirmity of the healed man, and offer a many-minutes-long unpacking of the significance of that number and how it fits the oft-employed water theme in the book of John, etc. My question(s), as applied to this particular situation, would be something like the following:
– Was the man really suffering for exactly 38 years, or did John just pick a number that fit the metaphor he intended to convey?
– Did John know the significance of 38 years. Was he intentionally communicating as deeply as [you believe], or is that depth something the Spirit applies “at a layer above”, that is, across the larger biblical narrative?
See my discussion of John 5 here.
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In this episode of the Theopolis Podcast, Peter Leithart and I discuss the readings for the twentieth Sunday after Pentecost: Genesis 2:18-25, Hebrews 2:1-13, Mark 10:2-16.
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In the latest episode of Mere Fidelity, Derek and I are joined by The Alan Noble to discuss his recent book, Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age.
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Within this video, I discuss Michael McClymond and Gerald McDermott’s superb book, The Theology of Jonathan Edwards.
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