Federal Vision is an Augustinian refinement of Reformed sacramental theology, and in that regard a friendly amendment and enhancement. It’s a catholic revision, an attempt to incorporate insights and ways of speaking from other traditions – from the best of medieval sacramental

RT @TimVasbyBurnie: Not long until PSALM ROAR WEST BROMWICH. A "Mini-Roar", 5-8pm on Sunday 14th September. With samosas. .

RT @_Theopolis: The Civitas Podcast.Episode 34.Sacred Foundations .A Conversation with Anna Grzymala-Busse.

The standard history of money says barter came first, then coins and currency, then credit as an abstract form of money. Graeber argues the actual history of money is just the opposite: Credit comes first, then physical coinage, which, until the modern age, never circulated

1 Cor 6:19-20 is an exodus passage:. *Bought with a price. *Temple of Spirit. *You are not your own. *Glorify God with the body.

Robespierre was "meant by Nature for a Methodist parson of the stricter sort.". -Thomas Carlyle.

"My ear you have dug" (Psa 40). "A body you have prepared for me" (Heb 10, quoting Psa 40). The opened ear is ready to listen and obey. So perhaps: "He" comes into the world with a hearing body, every pore an ear open to the voice of the Father.

James Wood will be teaching a Theopolis Intensive Course, "From Calvin to Christian Nationalism," October 16-18, in Birmingham. Register today.

As Paul points out, the order of creation indicates a priority: The woman is from the man and made for the sake of the man, rather than the opposite (1 Cor 11:9). As he reminds Timothy, the man was created first, and this firstness establishes a form of hierarchy between the two.

RT @LittleWordBooks: Today's #biblebookreview is Read-Aloud Bible Stories by Ella K. Lindvall and H. Kent Puckett. I liked it more than I e….

RT @_Theopolis: Christians Should Baptize Their Children, .but Not Because of Circumcision.

RT @_Theopolis: Episode 813.Sprinkled with the Blood.(Hebrews 9:17-24).

Excerpt from my Delivered from the Elements of the World.

When the Jews urge crucifixion, and ask Pilate to put Jesus on a cross to display His cursedness, they are urging a punishment they should receive. The precision is exquisite: Jesus dies as the penal substitute for Israel. This is not a piece of abstract theologizing, an

RT @_Theopolis: Because Scripture is so insistent Earth’s inhabitants are meant to dwell within His fiery glory flame, it offers potential….

Exod 32: Levites "fill the hand" with swords to execute idolaters, and so are qualified to serve as priests. Lev 8: Aaron is ordained by "filling the hand" with sacrificial offerings and priestly food. Judg 17: Micah "fills the hand" of the Levite with gold to hire him to serve.

Levitical sacrifice makes priests and incorporates Israelites into the high priest. 1) At their ordination, Aaron and sons are brought near (qarav, Lev 8:13), like an offering (Lev 1:1-3). 2) The ordination rite is the first time we see sacrifices in operation (Lev 8-9). With.

Love is the flame of Yah (SoS 8:6). Yahweh burns with the fire of consuming love. Yahweh ignites the altar fire (Lev 9), which makes sacrificial fire a flash from the flame of Yah. Therefore: The altar is a site for table communion. Therefore: The altar fire is a nuptial fire,.

Methodist circuit riders were "to American Protestantism what monks were to late antique Christianity, a small group of eccentrics who helped make their faith a mass religion.". -Sam Haselby.

First things (protos) in Hebrews 8-10:. *First covenant, 8:7, 13; 9:1.*First tent, 9:2, 6, 8.*First order of sacrifice, 10:9. The point: The way into the holy place isn't disclosed while the first tent stands (9:8). The first tent is the holy place, a buffer zone between Israel.