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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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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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Jesus died and rose to become the cornerstone of a new temple, but prophets and apostles constituted the rest of the foundation (Eph 2:20). The OT is a typological account of Christ's sufferings and glory AND of the apostles' preaching of repentance and forgiveness to the nations (Lk 24:46-47). The first martyrs were not only objects and beneficiaries of Christ's atoning work. In Him, they were subjects of salvation.
— Feb 12, 2025 08:27AM
Although the shades of popular belief may have different surface features from person to person and group to group (e.g., rationalism, relativism, mysticism, etc.) the core ideology is a form of ontological individualism in the pursuit of a self-defined flourishing where you (the god of your world) are free to define your own being, and the agreed upon societal sacred is centralized around the unfettered freedom of choice (self-creation). (Hence also the ubiquity of credobaptism)*
The purity taboos in such a system are any totalizing ideologies that impose beliefs on others (an attack on self-creation), and a sacred, "secular" space has been carved out to keep any such threats private and permanently out of the public square (or just a small voice at the table, one among the many).
*This is not to make any kind of theological argument against credobaptism, per se, simply to point out that our era is an anomaly in Church history in this regard, and the theological implications undergirding credobaptism fit well within a culture defined by individualism where "choice" is sacrosanct.