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My subject for today—the encounter of Saul with the prophet Samuel in 1 Sam 15—is not a stand-alone presentation. It is intended to set up a comparison with David’s encounter with the prophet Nathan in 2 Sam 12, to which I will turn in the next essay. My claim is that we will understand both of these stories far better if we have their counterpart in view.
My essay wil...
There were no Puritans on my street in Philadelphia. That was my reaction when, as an undergraduate, I first read Sydney Ahlstrom’s A Religious History of the American People, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Phi...
One cannot quite say that Balthasar’s biblical exegesis has been ignored. Yet, given how replete the use of scripture is throughout his work, the quantity of interpretation in terms of books and articles is underwhelming and often—though not always—so is the quality of the reading. A proper understanding of his biblical hermeneutics and biblical exegesis can be bl...
In the first part of this three-part essay, we considered some basic elements of a theology of reparation, a theme that is rooted in scripture, developed by Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas, among many others, and holds ...
It would be hard to overemphasize the importance of Psalm 51 in the history of Christian spirituality. In Dante’s Divine Comedy it is referred to by simply citing its first word, miserere (“have mercy on me”).[1] Or consider its place in the Liturgy of Hours. This is th...