Looking Ahead, Peeking Back
There is so much to come here at Tov Unleashed, not least our soon-to-be-announced Books of the Year. But also this is book arrival season — so many new ones and good ones — and I will be dipping into some of them, including Michael Graves’ How Scripture Interprets Scripture, and Richard Middleton’s Abraham’s Silence and Jason Staples’ The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism, which proposes an entire paradigm for understanding the difference between Youdaios (Judean, Jew) and Israel in the New Testament.
But this week, which includes our Thanksgiving, I will be looking at:
Monday: the problem of bottlenecking authorities in American churches.
Tuesday: what “good” with Good Shepherd meant in the Bible days and in the early church, and art tells the story.
Wednesday: what the gospel looks like in the Orthodox Church and why it’s valuable to know about this.
If you want to read along with us and join the conversation…
Thursday is Thanksgiving.
Last week:
Beyond Deconstruction: A Parable and a Paragraph
Gospel living in the patristic period
How black theology is not the same as white theology
Nuancing the American political landscape