The Song of Moses (Dt 32) predicts Israel's rebellion, Yahweh's judgment, and Yahweh's eventual vindication of His people. It's a public display of Yahweh's faithfulness and justice, and so the song ends by calling the nations to rejoice. The Song follows Jesus' summary of

In the Bible, measured and counted things are holy things - measured sanctuaries, counted holy people. Thus in Acts, Luke tabulates those who become living stones of Jesus’ new temple - 3000 at Pentecost, 5000 later, myriads of Jews, and, climactically, the 276 aboard Paul’s

What john milbank calls the “liberal Protestant metanarrative" is the foundation of social science and modern biblical studies. The story is: As religion matures, it becomes more purely religious, which is to say, it sheds it's non-religious elements and becomes an a-social and

“To be created by a saying, a command, means to be the kind of witnesses who have a dynamic role in seeing that the covenant is carried out. It means that heaven and earth in the Hebrew imagination are significantly different from the Greek cosmos; they are part of ‘a contractual

Joshua Jipp's study of Acts 28 is outstanding, illuminating not only that chapter but Luke-Acts as a whole. amazon.com/Divine-Visitat…

When the Jews at Pisidian Antioch reject Paul’s message, Paul and Barnabas “shake” (ektinasso) dust from their feet (Acts 13:51). When Corinthian Jews blaspheme, Paul “shakes” (ektinasso) out his garments (Acts 18:6). When a viper bites him on Malta, Paul “shakes” (apotinasso)

John Milbank on the paradox of social contract theory: *Men in state of nature form political society by consent. *To consent, men must already share a language and associated culture. *Political society can be formed only if political society exists prior to its founding.

Gary Anderson on the dramatic structure of the last third of Exodus: The latter part of Exodus is structured by a large-scale command-compliance sequence (Exod 25-31, 35-40), interrupted by radical disobedience and restoration (golden calf, Exod 32-34). In a sense, the whole

"human nature will be the last part of nature to surrender to man. The battle will then be won …  but who, precisely will have won it?" -CS Lewis

Planting an Embassy of the Empire by: Garrett Craw theopolisinstitute.com/conversations/…

“It is satisfying to manifest oneself concretely in the world, through manual competence; it has been known to make a person quiet and easy. It seems to relieve him of the need to offer chattering interpretations of himself, to vindicate his worth. He can remain quiet and simply

Aristotle says we perceive because the forms of objects traverse space and reproduce themselves somehow in our consciousness. That seems spooky and implausible, but RG Collingwood makes it more plausible by suggesting Aristotle assumes a predominantly aural model of perception.

God's instructions for the tabernacle come in 7 speeches, ending with a Sabbath command (Ex 25-31). Exod 40 says 7 times that Moses constructed the tabernacle "as Yahweh commanded." God's 7fold word + Moses' 7fold obedience produce the new creation that is the tabernacle.

Baptism unites us to Christ in His death. Baptism kills our old self and our old world. It can feel like total loss. But the old is what keeps us from being fully ourselves. The new man who emerges from the font is more perfectly his unique self than the old man who entered.

Ruchir Sharma on the causes of "financialization": “Although some financial sector deregulation did open new opportunities for big investors, the spring from which their capital flowed was governments and central banks. Including equity and debt, the size of financial markets

For the most part, the Gospel doesn’t subvert the ancient understanding of divinity. It mostly affirms it - acts of power, theophany, signs, control of nature and disease, resurrection. -David Bentley Hart

"Human omnivorousness is the bodily mark of man … as deformer and transformer. It is the unpremeditated, strictly natural sign of our dominant and mastering posture in the world, a posture of great danger as well as great promise, not only for the world but also for man

Episode 732: The Looming Death of Moses (Deuteronomy 31, Part 2) soundcloud.com/user-812874628…

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