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Constantine the Pious
Trinity House President Peter Leithart will deliver a lecture on "Constantine the Pious" at Oregon State University, Wednesday, October 30, at 7:00 PM.
by Peter LeithartOctober 29, 2013
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Modernity
We Have Never Been Modern
In his rich study, We Have Never Been Modern (Harvard 1993), Bruno Latour describes modernity in terms of a dual process of “purification” and “hybridization.” Purification involves the clean construction of a nature (and science) separated off from society and the self, while hybridization involves mixtures of nature and culture.…
by Peter LeithartOctober 28, 2013
Books
Conservatives on the Cutting Edge
In James K.A. Smith’s excellent book, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-secular Theology , he explains recent developments in theology and philosophy among mostly post-liberal (some Catholic) theologians. As with everything Dr. Smith writes, his prose is accessible, and written with clarity and precision as he describes the contribution made…
by Troy GreeneOctober 23, 2013
Biblical Theology
The Creator in Creation, (Part 3)
This is the last of a three-part series. 1:14-19 – The Lights in the Firmament The fourth day is the first day where God sets out His mediators and rulers. In the celestial bodies, God sets out His mediators and rulers in the same single class of created beings. We…
by Andrew BittnerOctober 22, 2013
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Revealing Revelation
Trinity House President Peter Leithart will be in Chicago this weekend lecturing on Revelation. Sign up here .
by Peter LeithartOctober 17, 2013
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In the Beginning
Only two more weeks to register for the Trinity House Advent class on the book of Genesis. Register before the late fees kick in!
by Peter LeithartOctober 17, 2013
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Humanizing Slaves
Exodus 21:26-27 requires a slave-owner to release a slave if he destroys his or her eye or tooth. Shalom Paul ( Studies in the Book of the Covenant , 78) claims that this is unprecedented in ancient law codes. He admits that "a slave is not considered the peer of…
April 13, 2018
Biblical Studies
Altar on the East
The Hebrew word for "east" is mizrach . The Hebrew word for "altar" is mizbeach . A pun? Perhaps. The bronze altars in the tabernacle and temple were in the court to the east of the front doorway (the eastern) doorway of the sanctuary. The mizbeach was on the mizrach…
April 13, 2018
River from the House
In Ezekiel 47, the prophet is shown a vision of a rebuilt temple. A river flows from the throne of Yahweh, under the threshold on the east of the house, and out to the land. As it flows, is makes the land fruitful, and when it reaches the Dead Sea…
April 13, 2018
Politics in Wood-World
For several decades, James Wood has bestridden the world of literary criticism like a Colossus. But Thomas Meaney suggests that there is something amiss in Wood-World. Meaney argues that "What distinguished Wood from most of his contemporaries and immediate predecessors was his focus on matters of aesthetic liberty over social…
April 13, 2018
Biblical Aesthetics
A recurring theme of medieval treatments of beauty, writes Umberto Eco (Art and Beauty in the Midlde Ages), is "the beauty of being in general. It was a period in whose history darkness and contradiction may be found, but its philosophers and theologians had an image of the universe that…
April 13, 2018
Of Water and Cisterns
Proverbs 5:15-23 follows the warnings of 5:1-14 concerning the seductive adulterous woman. The adulterous woman tempts by promising pleasure and, even more importantly, through flattery (vv. 2-3). The adulterous woman is attractive because she makes a young man feel oh so good about himself. Solomon goes on, however, to point…
April 12, 2018
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