The Bible

“In this one verse…St. Paul proposes a radically new model of what it means to be a human being.”

“The same facts can take on different ‘meaning’ depending on how they’re presented.

“And so they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, Jesus leading the way, and the disciples were filled with awe, while those who followed behind were afraid.”

“God places his words in Jeremiah’s mouth. How can this be consistent with Jeremiah’s status as a free and independent entity?”

“There is no single work more important than the Gospel of Mark…the Intellectual History of the West hangs on it, so its authenticity is of paramount importance.”

"In our zeal to project our conceptions of The Ideal Woman onto this enigmatic first-century figure, we’ve strayed a bit from the little we do know."

“We are asking Christ to come… to teach us, rescue us, shine on us, free us and, repeated three times, to save us.”

“…The spacetime world of matter and energy, 14 billion years old and almost 100 billion light years across, is not the final word.”

“Failure to appreciate the comic elements in Job has resulted in an almost universal misreading of the text.”

“This is possibly the shortest ‘play’ in all of literature…and yet it is arguably more important than anything Shakespeare (or even Andrew Lloyd Weber) ever wrote!

“But deliver us from evil,” this last verse is the key to the entire prayer.

“The eight beatitudes are a 'manifesto' for change, a change in the way we understand the world…behave in that world… (and) act toward one another.

“Some of us were waving copies of Mao’s Little Red Book; we all should have been clutching copies of the Old Testament.”

"No one has taken a bigger risk than Job, and no one has faced longer odds; and yet, Job has taken God to court and won!"

What would happen if we read the Old Testament in reverse order? From back to front. What if we began with Malachi and ended with Genesis?

The Bible doesn’t tell us what John saw, but it does tell us that the breaking of the seventh seal was followed by half an hour of total silence. Why?

Ultimately, the Kingdom of Heaven is the transfiguration of the historical realm into the eternal realm, according to God’s values.

How is it that God can perform the miracle of Incarnation? Or to put it more accurately, how is it that God is the miracle of Incarnation.

If I do my job in this essay, you may become a modern-day version of Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, who “stoppeth one of three." You’ll be spreading the truth about Job to anyone who’ll listen.

Traditionally, Nobels are awarded only to ‘living recipients’ and only for work completed in the preceding year. In its statement, the committee said it felt an exception was needed in this instance “in order to right a grievous wrong.”