Richard Hays on the poetic sensibility of the Gospels If we learn from them [the NT’s four evangelists] how to read, we will approach the reading of Scripture with a heightened awareness of story, metaphor, prefiguration, allusion, echo, reversal, and irony. To read Scripture well, we must bid farewell to plodding literalism and rationalism in […]
Robert Jenson comments on Ezekiel 22:30-31 The involvement – and indeed emotional involvement – of the Lord in his people’s history could hardly be more drastically pictured than here [22:30-31]. We find the Lord on both sides of Jerusalem’s walls: assaulting the city for its evils and seeking someone to fend off his own attack. […]
Terry Eagleton on the death of God That the death of God involves the death of man, along with the birth of a new form of humanity, is orthodox Christian doctrine, a fact of which Nietzsche seems not to have been aware. The incarnation is the place where both God and man undergo a kind […]
Richard Hays on Markan Christology For Mark, the singular mystery disclosed in and through the narrative is nothing other than the identity of Jesus himself, the Crucified Messiah who is also paradoxically the embodiment of the God of Israel. And yet to state this claim bluntly in so many words, as I have just done, […]
Rowan Williams on Why Adults Don’t Outgrow Fairy Tales In our day, it is adults who seem most to need and use them [fairy tales], because they are just about the only stories we have in common with which to think through deep dilemmas and to keep alive registers of emotion and imagination otherwise being […]
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