Peripatetic Pastor

Tag: Genesis

  • FINITUDE

    Thinking about Resurrection The Bible is about finitude—about this time-bound life we live here on earth. Most people come to the Bible not expecting this. They expect infinitude. They expect the Bible to be about immortal souls rather than mortal bodies, so prone as they are to failure. And of course the Bible is about…

  • Reading Genesis with Marilynne Robinson

    Marilynne Robinson, Reading Genesis (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024) Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson is an occasionally aggravating, sometimes confounding, and almost always brilliant engagement with the first book of the Bible.  The opening paragraph sets her approach to the book. Speaking of the Bible generally, she says that it “is a work of theology, not…