Peter Leithart
@PLeithart
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President, Theopolis Institute
Birmingham, Alabama
Joined August 2010
The Theopolis Podcast Episode 841 Ezekiel and Revelation (Revelation 10) with James Jordan https://t.co/5Nojc32sM5
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Comfort never looked this good. From chill mornings to late nights out — this sweatshirt’s got your back. Get it now 👉 https://t.co/k2oozr3Wcp
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Noise, and the music that is organized noise, is political, always linked to the exercise of power. We witness this fact most obviously in surveillance states that monitor and control of sounds and voices; eavesdropping, recording, censoring. Totalitarian regimes all “ban
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I couldn’t decide between deck-builder or city-builder... so I made BOTH. A cozy but compelling roguelite city-builder where you place buildings from your deck to settle islands. Unlock, swap and combine technologies to twist core rules and discover powerful card combos.
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Gregory of Nyssa: "The Father willed something and the Son, who is in the Father, had the same will as the Father, or better yet, He made Himself the Will of the Father." Christoph Schönborn glosses further: “what, to the eyes of the Arians, is proof of the Son’s subordination
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God created this world. To think we can know a god who created another reality, or didn't created at all, is absurd, for there is no such god.
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Robert Jenson on the point of Trinitarian theology: "it is the very function of trinitarian propositions to say that the relations that appear in the biblical narrative between Father, Son, and Spirit are the truth about God himself." And, in a Chestertonian vein: The Trinity
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Give At Theopolis, we believe the church is the Spirit’s instrument of renewal. Not the family, not the state, not the school, not para-church ministries, but the church.
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Proposal for pneumatological exploration: Examine biblical claims about the activity of the Spirit, and, where possible, add "and also for God." *Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Spirit as Liberty of God. *The Spirit fills with wisdom, knowledge, skill.
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SCOOP: Sources involved in the @wbd bidding war say the company has asked for a third-round of bids from @paramountco - @Skydance @netflix and @comcast due today. Story developing
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Can we keep our heads in a world gone mad? At Theopolis, we believe the answer's Yes. Theopolis exists to help Christians keep their heads perched right where they belong. To remain stable, focused, and fruitful in the face of lunacy, we need deep roots, long horizons, and a
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When I was a boy, my mother hung a framed copy of Rudyard Kipling’s “If” at the foot of my bed. I’m sure it was the first poem I memorized. Kipling’s opening lines come to mind a lot lately: If...
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Panurge (in Rabelais) on why the codpiece is the first and most significant piece of armor: "Behold how nature, having a fervent desire, after its production of plants, trees, shrubs, herbs, sponges, and plant-animals, to eternize and continue them unto all succession of ages
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Judges isn’t sheer horror. It’s comic, almost cartoonish horror. Judges are tricksters, deceivers who tell riddles. Their comedy is partly an effect of unconventional weapons – tent pegs, pitchers and trumpets, oxgoads, millstones, bare hands, jawbones, foxes with burning
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"The Son is in the Father like the beauty of the image is in the form of the model, and the Father is in the Son, as the exemplar beauty is in the image itself. However, unlike with images made by the human hand, in which there is always a temporal distance between the
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🧩If you're a cat lover, the numerous adorable cats in the artwork will surely touch your heart. If you're looking for a special gift, this creative and high-quality puzzle will also bring surprise and joy to the recipient. Cute pick here: https://t.co/WvtOk0mBun
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A Christian nation is one in which national life, institutions, and public acts do not terminate in national interest, preservation, or national greatness, but in service to another polity, the kingdom of God. No nation can be Christian if it operates on the premise of "[Name of
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"The gift that is eternally exchanged between the Father and the Son is not some abstract essence and something prior to hypostasis (unhypostatized), rather it is the Holy Spirit, Who is God. "Their eternal relationship can thus be expressed with a concise formula: the
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"One of the ways that the Trinitarian mystery better illuminates the human situation [is that] it indicates to us that the very depth of existence, the basis of reality, the form of everything in that it is the origin of all things, is love – that is, it is love in the sense of
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Thanks to Jack Waters for putting together this forum on Christian Fundamentals. https://t.co/PVAbv2Xk7R
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Reflecting on the centennial of the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy, Theopolis contributor Tim Nichols asked Dr. Leithart and me what the five fundamentals of the faith were today. His thoughts...
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The doctrine of the Trinity elevates the category of “relation” to the highest ontological level. In ancient thought, relation was an accident. Not something that makes a thing what it is. “The book is on table” indicates relation of book to table. Being “on table” doesn’t
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excited to share this episode of the Civitas @_Theopolis podcast with one of my favorite new scholars, @jasonstaples a rich conversation about a very important book
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The Theopolis Podcast Episode 840 They Desire a Heavenly Country Hebrews 11:13-20 https://t.co/ifSBdpnQCd
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