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Lisa Miller has a new book out on heaven, and while I haven't read it yet, the excerpt at Newsweek is intriguing. Miller highlights the paradox of believing
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Writing a book is a community project. It's been almost 10 weeks since I announced that I had signed the contract. During that time I've read
Cate MacDonaldembodimentAnthropology
February 17th is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season of Lent. Around this time last year I wrote a reflection on fasting as it is portrayed in Isaiah, wondering at the nature of a true fast. I think it’s sort […]
Andrew WalkerChurchEvangelicalismembodimentAnthropology
Son of God. Prince of Peace. Son of Man. Cagefighter? While the first three masculine titles given to our Lord Jesus are biblical and sufficient enough to express the wonder of Jesus, the last title seems to be ever-more increasingly […]
Matthew Lee AndersonembodimentAnthropology
I’m generally sympathetic to Robert Gundry’s helpful explication of the role of the body in Biblical theology. His careful exegetical work foreshadowed John Cooper’s conclusions in Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: the anthropology of Scripture points toward something like a […]
Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice
Andy Crouch is really smart. He's written one of the most important books on evangelicals relationship to culture in the last 20 years. And he's always
Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice
If Peter Leithart's latest writings are any indication, he's working on an essay or a book on the meaning of embodiment. Which would be fantastic. The
Jeremy MannembodimentAnthropology
Today as I set-up shop in a line at the Los Angeles DMV I happened to read an incisive essay published in Vogue forty years ago. The article was written by Susan Sontag, and my profit from it proves that […]
Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice
Wendell Berry's essay "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine" is a gem. I won't recap the whole argument, but along the way he provides
Matthew Lee AndersonembodimentAnthropology
In one very important sense, the scientific revolution was over before it began. At least if Noam Chomsky is right. In his collection of essays, On Nature and Language, Chomsky argues that Galileo adopted a mechanical method of intelligibility. In […]
Matthew Lee AndersonChurchembodimentFormation
They say only the good die young. I don’t know if it’s true. But it sounds good. And it’s a gentle way of talking about those whom we should not have lost. “Should.” There’s a world of meaning in that […]
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As a way of getting my blogging going, I thought I’d start a series of posts on some teachings of Thomas Aquinas. I think this will be interesting (at