I’m pretty sure that the most unsettling (and yet wonderful) thought to cross my mind in recent weeks is that our salvation truly involves undoing the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. This goes against virtually everything that I was taught to understand as the meaning of the Bible and the way in which Jesus made it … Continue reading Undoing the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
David Opderbeck on David Bentley Hart’s Tradition and Apocalypse
Author note: We are grateful to Dr. Opderbeck for this review. He is Professor of Law at Seton Hall University Law School and also teaches in Seton Hall’s Department of Religion. In addition to his law degrees, he holds an MAT from Fuller Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Systematic and Philosophical Theology from the … Continue reading David Opderbeck on David Bentley Hart’s Tradition and Apocalypse
Philip Bakardzhiev, “a Fellow Orthodox Christian,” Finds “the Author” Not Orthodox
Philip Bakardzhiev has posted an online review of David Bentley Hart's You Are Gods and does so from "the perspective of a fellow Orthodox Christian who wishes to appraise Hart’s legitimacy in presenting his views as Orthodox." This review was a little disorienting, and not primarily because of it's extraordinary number of typos. (There is … Continue reading Philip Bakardzhiev, “a Fellow Orthodox Christian,” Finds “the Author” Not Orthodox
People Seem to Enjoy Thinking and Talking About Fairies
Since this original post about Why Everyone (and Especially Christians) Should Believe in Fairies (currently, the second most-read post on this new team blog), this article's content has been shared three times and in a couple other formats. It is delightful and a real encouragement to find that there is some interest in this topic. … Continue reading People Seem to Enjoy Thinking and Talking About Fairies
Did God Set Us Up to Fail? (Jordan Wood Responds)
[Editorial note: Content here is pulled from social media comments and posted by Jesse Hake (with permissions). Some of this same material, along with additional related content, was also posted here.] First, my friend, Maurice Mo Hagar II, asked for help on social media... Did God set us up to fail? What a great question! … Continue reading Did God Set Us Up to Fail? (Jordan Wood Responds)
The Fall is Only Visible to Christians
Fr. John Behr gave a lecture recently about his forthcoming translation and critical Greek edition of On the Human Image of God by Gregory of Nyssa. It has a 8,000 word introduction and is due out in December or January. The title is what Behr gives as the correct title of the work that has … Continue reading The Fall is Only Visible to Christians
An Intro to Saint Gregory of Nyssa and His Last Work: The Life of Moses
My five year old daughter speaks with reverence about a “family tradition” involving the two of us walking down the Greenbelt trail near our home to The Tiger Eye coffeeshop where she loves to get a small cotton candy ice cream. It’s hardly a family tradition as we’ve been in this home only two or … Continue reading An Intro to Saint Gregory of Nyssa and His Last Work: The Life of Moses
Reading Proto-Genesis and Paul with David Bentley Hart (and Moses)
[Note: I’m honored to have had this article shared here by David Bentley Hart (along with one other on this topic).] As far as I can tell, the most "infamous" passage in Tradition and Apocalypse (controversial and disappointing even with some of Hart’s most informed and appreciative readers1) has been Hart's summary of the original … Continue reading Reading Proto-Genesis and Paul with David Bentley Hart (and Moses)
McDermott’s Ignorant Slander
[Note: I’m honored to have had this article shared here by David Bentley Hart (along with one other on this topic).] Gerald McDermott has published a review of Tradition and Apocalypse by David Bentley Hart that is riddled with lies of which McDermott must be aware. I think I counted over twenty books by Gerald … Continue reading McDermott’s Ignorant Slander
Mechanical Brideshead Revisited
I. Conservatives are just liberals driving at the speed limit. Mind you, it's good to drive at the speed limit so there are fewer accidents and atrocities on the road; every motor vehicle being, lest we forget, a mechanical Jacobin. Drivers simply can't avoid driving Jacobins along; Jacobins simply can't avoid driving drivers up the … Continue reading Mechanical Brideshead Revisited
Jesus and the Ancient Paths 