We are God’s children now, and what we will be is not yet revealed. But we know that when he is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
“‘Come along, Homo sapiens, for all we humble friends of yours are waiting here to cheer.’
The Wart walked up to the great sword for the third time. He put out his right hand softly and drew it out as gently as from a scabbard.”
— T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone
@daviddavage@AbernethyOTProf@NTWrightSays Came here to second this. TDRB reads like a lay-level distillation of Wright’s whole-Bible biblical theology in the back half of his career (vs. his earlier work in NTPG).
@mbird12@ElsieSJoseph1 I can generally differentiate English/Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and Kiwi. I do struggle to differentiate South African from Australian, though.
This week, we are giving away four books: Reading Backwards; Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels; With the Grain of Scripture; Moral Vision of NT.
To enter, follow, like, and retweet/share this post by Sunday, Oct 30. US only. Thanks, @baylorpress, @eerdmans, and @harpercollins.
@JaredOliphint I was a Philosophy BA (+ Mathematics BS) in undergrad, and one of my professors—an elderly Korean-American gentleman (and a legend in the department)—was always banging on about how “philosophy *is* the history of philosophy.”
He was a Hegelian, apparently.