Sublime

the foundational Jewish act: recognizing the one divine source of all of creation.

evaluate past interpreters of the faith. Since oppression of the weak by the powerful is one of those elements, we can put the critical question to Athanasius, Augustine, or Luther: What has the gospel of Jesus, as witnessed in Scripture, to do with the humiliated and the abused? If they failed to ask that question or only made it secondary in

this seems new or surprising to you, this is likely because centuries of Christian anti-Judaism have profoundly distorted the way Judaism is seen and understood, even, tragically, by many—probably most—Jews.

In protesting, the psalmists reach out to a God who loves them.

There’s an old saying in biblical studies (I first heard it from Ben Witherington III) that a text without a context is just a pretext for making it say anything one wants.

If we get the context wrong, we’ll get Jesus wrong as well.

Every culture has its typical beliefs, norms and values, but these are in constant flux.

Augustine’s denigration of women is no less objectionable than John MacArthur’s, no matter how venerable Augustine’s writings might be.