Should Abraham's silence in response to God's command to sacrifice Isaac be valorized or pitied? J. Richard Middleton argues for the latter in "Abraham's Silence," and I review it here.
Richard Middleton - Abraham's Silence https://t.co/JqdvfRzUbe
Family arrived from hither and yon and so over dinner last night we debated (for quite awhile) how the material world participates (or doesn’t) in the Fall and I love my family. Also, we bookmarked atonement theory for another meal.
A Christian witness that’s confined to the limits of conservatism or progressivism is a witness squandered.
The Gospel is so much more profound than those two broken frameworks. But we must have the courage to pursue a better way.
Compassion (&) Conviction
Fantastic episode. If you listen and don’t immediately want to read more Milosz, you’re dead inside, or don’t really like poetry, which is sorta the same thing. Seriously, great conversation on, among many other topics, role of poetry, abuse of language, philosophy, faith: