Augustine
The blood of Abel speaks
On Augustine's allegorical reading of Cain and Abel
Augustine
On Augustine's allegorical reading of Cain and Abel
Augustine
Adam's deep-sleep and the building of the Bride For the Theology of the Sexes course, Alastair Roberts assigned us to read some chapters from James Jordan’s Trees and Thorns together with the first chapters of Genesis. (It so happened that I’d just read Trees & Thorns
Sermon
These are my notes (lightly edited) for a sermon I preached at my church on Sunday 17 September 2023, under the supervision of the elders and the minister. It is the fruit of an assignment I had worked on for the Law in the Narratives elective as part of my
natural law
Thomas Aquinas registers a possible objection to the fixedness of natural law, from the fact that “God commanded Abraham to slay his innocent son [Isaac]”, that he ordered the Israelites to “borrow and purloin the vessel of the Egyptians” in the Exodus, and that he commanded Hosea (or, Osee) to