Thursday, December 26, 2002
Holiday Notes #2
Yesterday I finally read most of Dave Hegeman's Plowing in Hope (Canon Press, 1999). It was a perfect diversion for the hotel, plane, and airport. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
One of Hegeman's main themes is that the Bible begins in a garden and ends in a city, and that the goal of our culture-making is to work toward glorious garden-cities. Several times, I thought of this discussion (which all started with a Two Towers quote). I also kept thinking of Jim Jordan's work - from the garden-city motif to the priest-king-prophet pattern (which Hegeman just briefly mentions on pp 46-7). The book is subtitled Toward a Biblical Theology of Culture, and it is certainly that. Full of fruitful biblical theology, it includes several insightful Hebrew and Greek word studies.
I'm not sure I share Hegeman's eschatology down to the last detail, and I think I'd want to nuance his sabbatology, but on the whole I thought his book was wonderful.
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