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"The 'veil' is perhaps the best single symbol to express the unavoidable, head- on and mutually exclusive claims of Christianity and Judaism."
— Feb 06, 2025 03:43AM
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In Chapter 7, Leithart (1) enters the pistis Christou debate on the side of subjective genitive, (2) enters the penal substitutionary debate on the affirmative side, and then (3) skillfully and imo convincingly brings the two together.
Jesus, the faithful High King (David’s greater Son) is the penal substitution for Israel, taking the wrath she deserves as her one-flesh Husband. His faithfulness unto death saves us.
— Aug 24, 2025 07:50AM
Jesus, the faithful High King (David’s greater Son) is the penal substitution for Israel, taking the wrath she deserves as her one-flesh Husband. His faithfulness unto death saves us.
Andrew Meredith
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Leithart provides in chapter 4 one of the most useful systematic treatments on the biblical understanding of "flesh" I have ever encountered.
Too briefly put, "flesh" is (now) godless mortality driven by the fear of death into protectiveness, segregation, violence, and virility to both guard and extend itself.
Thus illuminating circumcision: the removal of flesh by the deliberate cutting of its most potent symbol.
— Aug 22, 2025 05:55AM
Too briefly put, "flesh" is (now) godless mortality driven by the fear of death into protectiveness, segregation, violence, and virility to both guard and extend itself.
Thus illuminating circumcision: the removal of flesh by the deliberate cutting of its most potent symbol.
Andrew Meredith
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A successful theory of the atonement:
1. Historically plausible: a meaningful interpretation of all events
2. Inevitable: end of an obvious trajectory with strong explanatory power for what came before
3. Levitical: fulfillment of ritual, especially sacrifice
4. Evangelical: arises from within Gospels
5. Epistolary: makes sense of words, sentences, arguments in Apostles' letters
6. Fruitful: leads to church history
— Aug 20, 2025 06:39AM
1. Historically plausible: a meaningful interpretation of all events
2. Inevitable: end of an obvious trajectory with strong explanatory power for what came before
3. Levitical: fulfillment of ritual, especially sacrifice
4. Evangelical: arises from within Gospels
5. Epistolary: makes sense of words, sentences, arguments in Apostles' letters
6. Fruitful: leads to church history
Andrew Meredith
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"The common contemporary rhetoric of conflicts between religion and politics obscures the reality. Conflicts are never between politics and religion. Conflicts are always between rivals that are both religious and both political."
— Aug 19, 2025 03:03PM
Andrew Meredith
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"Justification," being declared/proven right, must be placed within the ongoing war between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, on which depends the destiny of the cosmos over which mankind has been placed.
Jesus and all who are "in Him" were justified by His resurrection, and with it, a cosmological regeneration began in which the curse of death and the power of Satan is being turned back day by day.
— Aug 19, 2025 05:59AM
Jesus and all who are "in Him" were justified by His resurrection, and with it, a cosmological regeneration began in which the curse of death and the power of Satan is being turned back day by day.
Andrew Meredith
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Leithart spends the last few chapters providing a taxonomy of today's socio-religious landscape outside the Church. He has three designations:
1.) Those still living under the elements (e.g., tribal and more ancestral religions)
2.) Those "on the boundary" whose religion has been Christianized (e.g., Buddhism, Islam, etc.)
3.) Galatianists who were once Christian but have slid back into a world under the elements
— Feb 13, 2025 06:35AM
1.) Those still living under the elements (e.g., tribal and more ancestral religions)
2.) Those "on the boundary" whose religion has been Christianized (e.g., Buddhism, Islam, etc.)
3.) Galatianists who were once Christian but have slid back into a world under the elements
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"For Paul the veil in all its senses is precisely what is removed: The veil that separates Yahweh from his people has been breached in the coming of the Word in flesh; the veil has been rent at the cross, and in the resurrection Jesus appears in glory unveiled to his disciples; the veil that protected Israel from the glorious face of Moses has been removed so that it can transform believers from glory to glory. The veil crystallizes stoicheic order. The gospel is the good news that the veil has been lifted. In nearly a direct inversion of Paul (2 Cor 3), modern Judaism defines itself as the religion of the permanent veil."
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