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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.
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Chapter 8: Justified by the Faith of Jesus
"Justification" is a Pauline term to describe the atonement itself, not merely to describe the application of the fruit of the atonement to an individual person. The first recipient of justification was Jesus by His resurrection (His resurrection was His justification), and then the world is justified through Him.
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"Justification" is a Pauline term to describe the atonement itself, not merely to describe the application of the fruit of the atonement to an individual person. The first recipient of justification was Jesus by His resurrection (His resurrection was His justification), and then the world is justified through Him.
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Chapter 7: The Faith of Jesus Christ (Part 2)
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Chapter 7: The Faith of Jesus Christ
(In which Leithart defends penal substitutionary atonement)
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(In which Leithart defends penal substitutionary atonement)
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Chapter 2: The Physics of the Old Creation
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Circumcision was a ritual confession of the impotence of flesh and the beginning of a pedagogy of weakness and dependence, a pedagogy of faith (Rom 4).
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Having taken up residence among the Israelites. Yahweh invited them to his house to share his goods. Under the circumstances, Yahweh's hospitality must be restricted, the welcome must be a controlled welcome, stoicheic (elemental) access. But Yahweh set up his house SO THAT fleshly people, who were marked by the renunciation of flesh, could draw as near as possible. Torah was a form of ta stoicheia tou kosmou (the elements of the world), but it was a form that permitted limited access. It introduced a new world of worship and held out the possibility of even freer, more open access in the future. By rearranging the common elements of sacred space, purity rules, sacrifice, and priesthood, Yahweh began to form a new creation, and a new nature, in the midst of flesh.
Circumcision, the Tabernacle, and Torah were the beginning of Yahweh's answer to the exile of Eden and the division of Babel.