Glory and the Gibbit

So when the Christ finally appeared, it seemed pretty clear to everyone what He was going to do. The most natural thing in the world to assume was that He would be manifested in power and glory, He would bare His right arm, and deliver the people of Israel. This assumption was even shared by the Lord’s disciples. He would destroy the Romans, and establish Israel as a free and prosperous kingdom, and He would do it all by kicking butt and taking names…Now they were right about the greater work of power—which is what the resurrection was—but they failed to budget for the humiliation that would need to happen first, setting the stage for the resurrection. In order to make a resurrection possible, it was necessary for Him to die.

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The point of this podcast is pretty broad — “All of Christ for all of life.” In order to make that happen, we need “theology that bites back.” I want to advance what you might call a Chestertonian Calvinism, and to bring that attitude to bear on education, sex and culture, theology, politics, book reviews, postmodernism, expository studies, along with other random tidbits that come into my head. My perspective is usually not hard to discern. In theology I am an evangelical, postmill, Calvinist, Reformed, and Presbyterian, pretty much in that order. In politics, I am slightly to the right of Jeb Stuart. In my cultural sympathies, if we were comparing the blight of postmodernism to a vast but shallow goo pond, I would observe that I have spent many years on these stilts and have barely gotten any of it on me.