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Wrestling the Angel

Last updated on: September 18, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

Terryl Givens’s forthcoming Wrestling the Angel is the first of a two-volume study of the foundations of Mormon theology and practice. Givens admits that Mormonism, for all its roots in Christian Scriptures, diverges “radically” from traditional Christianity, and he locates the difference in “a distinctive cosmology and metaphysics” which is developed through an “unconventional narrative of human identity and a re-envisioned divine nature.” That cosmology is the focus of this first volume. The second volume will take up Mormon ecclesiology and... Read more

Judaism and Apocalypse

Last updated on: September 18, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

Paul gives a brief summary of his advancement in Judaism in Galatians 1:13-14, but the description is surrounded by references to an unveiling of Jesus: A. The gospel came not from man, 11-12a B. but by revelation (apokalupsis) of Jesus, 12b B. Former life in Judaism, 13a C. Persecuting the church of God, 13b B’. Advancing in Judaism, 14 B’. God revealed (apokalypto) His Son in me, 15-16a A’. No consultation with flesh and blood, 16b-18 Clearly, the “unveiling” of... Read more

Smoky

Last updated on: September 18, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

After the Lamb ascends to heaven, the living creatures and elders suddenly have bowls (phiale) of incense (Revelation 5:8). The incense is identified with the “prayers of the saints.” They are like the leaders of the tribes in Numbers 7, each of whom brings, among other things, “one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense” (Numbers 7:14, 209, 26, etc.). The prayers don’t seem to have any effect at this point, but at least they have gotten into heaven,... Read more

The Least of These

Last updated on: September 17, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

Some reflections on the judgment scene from Matthew 25 over at the Trinity House site. Read more

Divided Nation

Last updated on: September 17, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

Two linguists – Jack Grieve of Aston University and blogging linguist Mark Lieberman – have been sifting through millions of tweets trying to uncover the “geography of filler words,” Quartz reports. Their results show a clear preference for “um” in the Plains States and the central Midwest. “Uh” is preferred in the South, and the Uh territory sweeps up the Atlantic coast to New England, with some fuzzy undecided overlap in Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. The Upper Midwest – Northern Michigan,... Read more

Fashionable Fat

Last updated on: September 17, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

Temple University Sociologist Amanda Czerniawski is interested in how fatness functions in contemporary culture, and especially in contemporary understanding of beauty. Considering herself a vivacious, attractive plus-size woman, and with some acting experience under her belt, she decided to become an under-cover sociologist in the plus-size modeling world. Her forthcoming Fashioning Fat is the result. Plus-sized models swim against the current of the fashion industry, attempting to undo cultural stigmas. Czerniawski draws from Naomi Wolf’s claim that standards of beauty are... Read more

Throne and Shepherd

Last updated on: September 17, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

Those who come through the great tribulation need white robes. Their own robes aren’t white, and their own blood isn’t enough to wash them. But once they have shed their blood and been washed in the blood of the Lamb, their robes are white enough to pass inspection in the throne room (Revelation 7:14). These are Old Covenant saints, come from the “great tribulation” of Israel’s history. They have had to wait to enter the presence of God because there... Read more

Throne and Shepherd

Last updated on: September 17, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

Those who come through the great tribulation need white robes. Their own robes aren’t white, and their own blood isn’t enough to wash them. But once they have shed their blood and been washed in the blood of the Lamb, their robes are white enough to pass inspection in the throne room (Revelation 7:14). These are Old Covenant saints, come from the “great tribulation” of Israel’s history. They have had to wait to enter the presence of God because there... Read more

Extending the Incarnation

Last updated on: September 17, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

The notion that the church is an “extension” of the incarnation has been a source of controversy. For many, especially Protestant theologians, the notion seems to blur the necessary distinction between Head and body, Husband and bride, Lord and servants. If the church is an extension of the incarnation, the church may become as divine, inviolable, infallible as Jesus is. When we take John’s gospel and Revelation together, we have a way of thinking about the issue that may avoid... Read more

Nations Win Out

Last updated on: September 16, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

An analysis from Stratfor Global Intelligence claims that the effort to re-establish medieval caliphates will run into several obstacles. The first has to do with internal divisions among radical Islamists themselves. Muslim nation-states are admittedly artificial, often weak, but still Islamists tend to group together along national lines: “Most Islamists, who are aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood or some variant of it, embrace the nation-state and should not be conflated with the minority of radical Islamists and jihadists who seek to... Read more

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