Light from the Readable Books 21: Baruch and the New Name

Baruch 4:9-5:9; Isaiah 60:14; 2 Tim 4:8, Rev 21:1-4, 22-26, Isaiah 61:1-4, 9-10. The prophet Jeremiah, because of the hard judgments that he had to proclaim, and because of his book of Lamentations, became the inspiration for the term “Jeremiad” –a mournful complaint or list of woes.  Baruch, his secretary, follows his master’s example forContinue reading “Light from the Readable Books 21: Baruch and the New Name”

New Article on the New Creation in Scripture and Tradition

Friends may be interested in reading this article which appears in the St Andrews online Encyclopaedia of Theology. In it I speak of the New Creation in terms of what is “good,” what is “new,” and what is “beautiful,” and try to find a way through the debate between anticipating the resurrection and the conceptContinue reading “New Article on the New Creation in Scripture and Tradition”