The striking subtlety of the New Testament writers
The extreme simplicity of the gospel texts makes it very easy for post-moderns to assume the authors were simple-minded. But in fact, they are writers of unparalleled subtlety and economy.
The extreme simplicity of the gospel texts makes it very easy for post-moderns to assume the authors were simple-minded. But in fact, they are writers of unparalleled subtlety and economy.
Decades ago, it was the fashion to say, “Shakespeare was not written by Shakespeare but by somebody else of the same name”. That fashion died the death it deserved. But
The Bible is not the Big Book of Everything and the attempt to enlist Jesus in the minutiae of highly specific and historically conditioned culture war arguments is doomed. Take
Over on the Book of Face, somebody posted a reading from Matthew followed by a favorite passage from Chesterton’s Orthodoxy. I will reproduce both here: Jesus said to his disciples:“Amen,
Paul, remarking on the utter futility of salvation and healing through law remarks: I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I
Here is an unfortunately all-too-common sort of meme one finds on the web So much of internet atheism is ex-Fundamentalists declaring their rejection of things no non-Fundamentalist cares about. My
Jesus famously says, “Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in
When God became human, he joined the homeless population and had nowhere to lay his head. He said: “When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the
Jimmy Akin has a fun show where he looks at all kinds of spooky arcana. In this episode, he takes a look at the evidence for the Exodus, which is
Here is a classic sort of Inspirational Poster you can find in a million places: This passage gets quoted times without number, overlaid on a piece of gorgeous photography or
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