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Esau McCaulley

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Esau McCaulley

@esaumccaulley

Author: How Far to the Promised Land; | NT prof @wheatoncollege | Contributing opinion writer @NYTimes | Senior Editor for @HolyPostpodcast | Priest for C4SO

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Joined May 2009

Esau McCaulley
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Mar 2, 2023
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What about the marriage and Christ and the Church are linked? sacrifice, care, and nourishment. He does not link particular aspects of sexual activity to Christ and the Church. I've seen the negative impact of these reading have on Christian women in particular.
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Esau McCaulley
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Mar 29, 2023
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We can love our neighbors enough to make it harder for people to shoot them.
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Esau McCaulley
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Mar 29, 2023
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We do, after all, claim to follow the one who chose the way of non-violence and love, who explicitly commanded us to care for the most vulnerable, particularly children. Gun reform is not some wild take, it is one means of practically implementing neighborly love.
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Esau McCaulley
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Mar 2, 2023
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For example Jesus is called a “thief in the night” but everything about a thief is not true of Jesus. Jesus is like a thief in that he comes unexpectedly. The text links the unexpected nature of a thief’s coming to Jesus’ unexpected return. Now to Paul’s marriage metaphor:
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Esau McCaulley
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Mar 2, 2023
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Each must be argued on a case by case basis. One of the principles of reformation biblical interpretation was that typological exegesis can go too far.
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Esau McCaulley
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Jun 25, 2023
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My disappointments and frustrations are between me and God. Everything isn’t for the internet. But I can say this much. His presence lingered longer than my problems.
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Esau McCaulley
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Mar 2, 2023
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*Addendum* On patristic exegesis: (1) The fathers are wrong sometimes; (2) We cannot brush aside early Christian ecclesiology, sacramental theology, worship habits, and soteriology, and then say “well their extensions of metaphors are fair game.”
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Esau McCaulley
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Mar 2, 2023
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Rather than being inflammatory, let me say a bit about how metaphors work in the Bible. The point is what the text highlights. It is call hermeneutical restraint.
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Esau McCaulley
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Mar 2, 2023
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In particular this involves a shedding of the normal social power given to the male in society for the sake of the flourishing of the spouse. That is a central point. Christ had power and status and gave it up for the church (Phil 2:6–11)
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