The Witnesses of Jesus’s Resurrection
by Mark BauerleinOn this episode, David Limbaugh joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss his new book, The Resurrected Jesus: The Church in the New Testament. Continue Reading »
God of Exodus
by Peter J. LeithartGod is the God of exodus, who hears the cries of his people, visits them in their distress, and takes vengeance against rivals. Continue Reading »
God's Holy Nation
by Peter J. LeithartObserving the online reaction to my column, I fear I was misunderstood. Some apparently read it as a brief for the primacy of the “spiritual” over the “political.” That isn’t my view. I advocate instead the deconstruction of the spiritual/political dualism and the primacy of ecclesial politics. Continue Reading »
Apostles Dead and Risen
by Peter J. LeithartThe fourfold Gospel proclaims not only the resurrection of Jesus, but also the resurrection of the apostles. Continue Reading »
On Supersessionism
by Hans BoersmaIt is not ethnic descent but union with Christ that determines one’s place in the household of God. Continue Reading »
Turning Sauls into Pauls
by Peter J. LeithartThe conversion of a former enemy demonstrates that Jesus can and does turn Sauls into Pauls. Continue Reading »
Heresy at a Jesuit College
by Charlotte AllenA New Testament professor at the College of the Holy Cross has suggested Jesus was a “drag king” with “queer desires.” Continue Reading »
High Gospel Christology
by James R. RogersYesterday I wrote about the broad argument in Richard B. Hays book, Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness. It’s a useful book, although oddly positioned. On the one hand, it can work to help biblically literate but non-specialized Christians better to understand . . . . Continue Reading »
The God Who Names Himself
by Timothy GeorgeThe whole Bible is a single, unified text with theological coherence. In it the one supreme and true God, the God who has forever known himself as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, reveals himself to his people in personal self-disclosure. The initial five books of the Bible, called the . . . . Continue Reading »
A New Christian Zionism
by Gerald McDermottCritics of Christian Zionism usually dismiss it for one or more of three reasons: 1. They say it makes mincemeat of the New Testament, where (it is alleged) the Old Testament focus on a particular land is replaced by the vision of a whole world; 2. They think it is the exclusive concern of premillennial dispensationalists, whose theology supposedly uses Jews to advance its own role in presumptuous schedules of End Time events; 3. It is said to be more political than theological, attached to right-wing American and Israeli political parties that wrongly identify the current Israeli state with the eschaton.Scholars at a recent conference at Georgetown made the case for a “new” Christian Zionism that takes a fresh approach to all three of these problems. Continue Reading »
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