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Tomorrow I’ll post my own view of Mary’s perpetual virginity. But today we need to look at Jerome, who is perhaps the first major theologian to deal with our question — was Mary perpetually virgin? He does so in polemics with Helvidius, both of whom were in Rome at about the same time, c. 383…

One of the reasons I’m blogging through this book is that it was written by a pastor, and it is important for me to understand more deeply what pastors think and do. Chp. 6 deals with the heart of pastoral vision: compassion. How compassionate are you? Here’s a definition for each of us:

Sorry, the title to this post is some old humor about circumcision. While 4:4-8 could be seen as the show-stopper for the New Perspective, 4:9 actually turns the lights on for its show. How so? Because, after positing a “faith” vs. a “reckoning” system, Paul turns the lights once again on Jewish privilege.

I took that test I linked to in the Weekly Meanderings last Saturday, and this is what showed up. I’d not characterize myself this way, but maybe you took it too. At any rate, I have purchased Finney’s 2-volume theology, but not read a word; his atonement theory is governmentalist which I can’t quite get…
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