Here’s what’s going on around the theoblogs today:
- Craig Carter and Peter Leithart go back and forth about Yoder and Constantinianism.
- Speaking of Yoder, R.O. Flyer takes a look or two at Yoder’s Christology and the question of the Creeds.
- A Chicagoan weighs in on the row about Obama’s choice of condiments.
- Chris Spinks also takes a look at Michael Gorman’s latest book on Theosis in Paul.
- Michael Bird also points us to a new video from N.T. Wright on his latest book on Justification in Paul.
two Constantinians going back and forth about the Constantinian shift! Does anyone else catch the irony here?
Leithart should read Yoder’s Jewish Christian Schism Revisited before making these arguments(and he should open up his blog for comments). The apologists’ excising of emerging Christianity’s Jewish roots was closely linked to its desire to be free of the precarious situation the Jews found themselves in depending on who was in charge. That “the theological shifts began before the ’sociological and political pressures’ reversed” is not contradictory, as Leithart claims, b/c the theological shift took place out of a desire for exactly that reversal. To call it Constantinian is simply to provide that shift with a handle after the fact, like every historian does. He is not making any legitimate points.
And why does Carter have to be do so damn smarmy?
I agree with you about everything.