Jesu, Juva
I don’t hold to the idea of an enduring covenant of bondage or of Hagar: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5. But let’s imagine, for a moment, just for the sake of argument, that it does endure. What can we learn about it? Such a thing cannot have any enduring life […]
I recently read Douglas Van Dorn’s book, Razing Hair. I’m familiar with quotation theory as relates to 1 Corinthians, but the notion of Paul’s sarcasm provides interpretive ammunition that goes beyond mere quotation. There are several strong arguments for Van Dorn’s hypothesis: In order to be truly compelling, I would expect this approach to be […]
Ecclesiocentrism is a decent label for my view of church and state. I want to see the development and growth of Christian nations and Christian families; this term helpfully highlights the fact that families and nations find their fulfillment not merely in their proper orientation to Jesus, but also in their proper orientation to his […]
Pastor Peter Jones highlights that there are Edenic references in Numbers 13-14, including: With this framework, the entire sequence is a kind of new fall into sin, and in this light the attempted conquest at the end of Numbers 14 is especially an attempt to seize forbidden fruit out of its time. What is fascinating […]
James Jordan offers an insight into Peter’s vision of the sheet. He does this at one point while reflecting on the sin of Jonah: Peter says, I’ve never eaten anything defiled or unclean. And God says, “What God has cleansed, you shall not consider unclean.” That’s not really what he says. He says, “What God […]
James Jordan and his associates have developed a rich set of teaching around biblical themes related to wisdom. The following is an attempt to summarize key aspects of this teaching. To develop this, I leveraged Anthropic’s AI models to summarize a large set of lectures and publications from Jordan and others including Peter Leithart. I’ve […]
A parable of catholicity Grampa and gramma: You’re no grandson of ours unless you move back to our house!Pawpaw and memaw: You’re no grandson of ours unless you move back to our house! Applications Of course, my parable is too generous by far to Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. As things work out in reality, […]
Jesus and Nicodemus discuss regeneration in John 3: Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Evangelicalism commonly reads this as referring to individual regeneration, but I’m convinced that is not in view. Nicodemus, a ruler […]
Earlier I claimed that James Jordan had not drawn a straight-line connection between the church’s abandonment of paedobaptism and our culture’s practice of abortion. At the time I was focused primarily on Jordan’s lectures, but I’ve searched again through his written materials. Jordan’s 1989 essay, “The Holy War in America Today: Some Observations on Abortion […]
Numbers 12 is a recapitulation of the fall in the garden in Genesis 3: Incidentally, I find it interesting that Moses, Miriam, and Aaron were all over 80 years old at this time. If this identification is true, we should look for the pattern of a triplicate fall in Numbers. Miriam and Aaron commit their […]