Seraphim Hamilton☦️ 🇺🇸
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Orthodox Christian, Christ is Lord. Following does not imply agreement with content.
Joined June 2021
I wrote a contribution to a recent Theopolis Conversation on the Bible and the Divine Council. Link in reply.
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Isaiah is so richly Christological. Isaiah 40.6-8 tells us that the created world- represented by plants like grass and flowers- fades, but the "word of our God will stand forever." This is bookended by Isaiah 55.10ff, where God says that as the rain makes the plants to sprout,
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Interesting detail about Ps 89 (MT). The psalm is often assumed to have its context in the fall of the Davidic monarchy after the Babylonian exile. Because it concludes Book III of the Psalter, it is particularly important for interpreting the shape of the whole book. But the
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If you're interested in sponsoring our expenses while at seminary and also getting a large archive of up to 40 hrs of content (I have some backlogged that is going to be uploaded over the coming year), please consider signing up for my Patreon. Link in reply.
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In 1940, C.S. Lewis listened to a speech by Adolf Hitler on the radio. Shortly after, he wrote a letter to his brother, commenting on the power of Hitler's rhetoric: "Statements which I know to be untrue all but convince me, at any rate for the moment, if only the man says them
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I want to cancel my Audible but I have twelve credits. What books should I get with those twelve credits so that I don't lose them when I cancel?
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Dear all- please pray for the repose of David (Orthodox) and have him commemorated in the Liturgy.
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Writing biblical commentary in academic-ese: make sure to write "the deity" instead of "God." Makes you sound more scholarly.
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Hey all, please pray for a paper I am writing!
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Please pray for Ava, a nine month old baby who has leukemia and is in danger of death.
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People like this think (or want you to think) that "biblical scholarship" has discovered something objective about the world of first-century Judaism or the Greco-Roman world which has fundamentally altered the way we approach the New Testament. The reality is that it's made up.
Christians who have made peace with biblical scholarship already know that the gospels depict Jesus saying things it is not credible that he actually said. Keeping one's head in the sand about this to preserve a dubious methodological simplicity in accessing Jesus is foolish.
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Observation about the word for "blessed" (other words translated the same way are different) in Ps. 1:1- this word is first used in Psalm 1:1 and then in Psalm 2:12, "blessed are all those who take refuge" in "the Son" whom they have kissed. The next time this word is used in the
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Please pray for Heather and Glen, who are going through a difficult time.
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The prophets use similar imagery of God pleading with Israel to come home, like a jilted husband who is abandoned by his wife. It honestly seems like your argument here is that the vibes aren't powerful enough. There's nothing incoherent about what Lossky said. The statement that
One of the leading Eastern Orthodox theologians of the last century, Vladimir Lossky, wrote the following paragraph: "God created man like an animal who has received the order to become God," says a deep saying of St. Basil, reported by St. Gregory of Nazianzus. To execute this
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Please pray for Nicholas, that he have diligence and humility in his schoolwork, and that he keep his focus on Christ.
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@iancbeavis @LacanianC 1. A veil is vertical because it operates in the context of a sanctuary which is horizontal. The tabernacle works from the outside in, the mountain works from the bottom up. What is vertical in the tabernacle becomes horizontal in the mountain. This isn't just something that
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Academic biblical critics often insist that you need to spend years and years in their circles before you really can understand why all of this base nonsense is actually highly sophisticated. No, you really don't. It's just that intellectual osmosis is an incredibly powerful
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