Eschatology and the Letter

How To Do Theology

I have a confession to make: for a long time in college, I tried to resist Platonizing as a Christian. In fairness to me, I was trying to be faithful to the world of the Bible as I was studying it critically at university: a world where YHWH was a corporeal and anthropomorphic god that, yes, did sometimes deeply problematic things but, also, was availab…