Peter J. Leithart
Autore di A House for My Name: A Survey of the Old Testament
Sull'Autore
Peter J. Leithart (PhD, University of Cambridge) is president of Theopolis Institute in Brimingham, Alabama, and an adjunct senior fellow of theology at New Saint Andrews College. He is the author of many books, including Defending Constantine.
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Opere di Peter J. Leithart
Between Babel and Beast: America and Empires in Biblical Perspective (Theopolitical Visions) (2012) 57 copie
Daddy, why was I excommunicated?: An examination of Leonard J. Coppes, Daddy, may I take communion? (1998) 30 copie
I Respond, Though I Shall Be Changed: Essays on the Thought of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (2023) 5 copie
The Walls Came Tumbling Down 3 copie
The Collected Christian Essentials: Catechism: A Guide to the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, and the Lord's… (2023) 3 copie
The Collected Christian Essentials: Catechism: A Guide to the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, and the… (2023) 2 copie
"I Am the Lord Your God" 1 copia
The Guarantee of Liberty 1 copia
Daddy, Why Was I Excommunicated? 1 copia
The Intercollegiate 1 copia
Do Baptists Talk to their Babies? — Autore — 1 copia
The Way Things Really Ought to Be : Eucharist, Eschatology, and Culture — Autore — 1 copia
Baptismal Meditations 1 copia
Bringing Sons to Glory 1 copia
Opere correlate
Revolutions in Worldview: Understanding the Flow of Western Thought (2007) — Collaboratore — 204 copie
Four Views on the Church's Mission (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology) (2017) — Collaboratore — 85 copie
Christology, Ancient and Modern: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics (Proceedings of the Los Angeles Theology… (2013) — Collaboratore — 81 copie
Constantine Revisited: Leithart, Yoder, and the Constantinian Debate (2013) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
The Words of the Wise Are Like Goads: Engaging Qoheleth in the 21st Century (2013) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Leithart, Peter J.
- Nome legale
- Leithart, Peter James
- Altri nomi
- 利法特
Leithart, Peter - Data di nascita
- 1959-07-20
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- University of Cambridge (PhD| Theology)
Hillsdale College (AB| English and History)
Westminster Theological Seminary (MA|Religion)
Westminster Theological Seminary (ThM) - Attività lavorative
- Theological professor
author
clergy - Organizzazioni
- New Saint Andrews College
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 78
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 5,705
- Popolarità
- #4,331
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 39
- ISBN
- 103
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 9
The challenge of this book for the person without a background in philosophy is to get past the first three chapters which explore questions of God’s being, self-existence, and simplicity, and what may be said of God, wrestling with the challenge of apophaticism, in which we can only say what God is not. There are questions of how God relates to the physical world and how God can be an unmoved mover and yet retain God’s simplicity. Along the way, Peter J. Leithart invokes Aquinas and Aristotle, Plato and Plotinus, Augustine and Bulgakov, among others. It’s challenging reading, and important for its exploration of discussions of the being and nature of God.
It also sets us up for the radical turn in the second half from the reasonings of pagan and Christian philosophers to the revelation of Genesis 1. We find here no discussions of the Absolute, the One, or Being. The first thing we learn of God is that God is almighty Creator. Scripture does not know of a God “without interplay with creatures, without a created playground” (p. 150). Creation reflects who God is from eternity. God’s transcendence is over creation, never apart from it. Unlike Greek philosophy, there is no God unrelated to creation.
Furthermore, Leithart asserts, against those who propose that the “we” of Genesis 1 is a heavenly council, that Genesis 1 reveals a Triune Creator. There is a harmonious unity, creating, calling by Word, and forming or hovering–Father, Son, and Spirit. In this, the life of God is revealed as “justice, holiness, wisdom, power, goodness, and truth, all actualized in the infinitely mobile, infinitely lively, inexhaustibly energetic life of triune love, a;; actualized in relation to a contingent creation” (p. 209).
What then do we say of God’s being, the question of ontology. We often speak of God as “I am” as one who is self sufficient, but utterly other. Yet a Triune Creator is both utterly sufficient, but also utterly related to creation, which reveals the self-giving love of the Triune loving Creator.
Genesis 1 reveals a God who speaks and sees. Leithart notes: “All created action, all moments and periods and bodies of time, all created experience is suspended between God’s saying and his seeing.” A staggering thought indeed–that all of our existence is encompassed and sustained and directed by God’s saying and seeing.
My experience of this book was to move from exasperation with my efforts to follow philosophical arguments to exultation in worship of the Triune Creator who speaks and sees all creation–and that so much may be found in Genesis 1 that is not mere polemical ammunition in origins debates.
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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher for review.… (altro)