Nathan Kilpatrick’s Reviews > Grains of Wheat: Suffering and Biblical Narratives > Status Update

This looks fun

It is, but it’s also a bit deceptive. It gathers together the readings of Scripture she already wrote, with two new chapters (on on the Temptation of Christ and another on Ecclesiastes), but it’s not a lot of new information. Those chapters are killer, though

She is an expert in recycling; perks of MO compared to ND. I also need to reread her biblical sections in wandering to ensure that (for my mind) she’s not merely offering a moralizing or qualified moralizing reading.

It’s worth it; the criticism against her kind of highly analytical reading, always, is that it doesn’t take the weight of the tradition’s approach to these texts as central. She does her best to show reverence to the tradition, but she’s looking at the texts to give answers to specific philosophical questions, not just to see how the Church reads them.

Heard—have you read Khaled Anatolios’s Deification through the Cross? I’d be curious what you think of his bib interp (chap 1 or 2 I think) compared to Stump’s.

Nope, but I just added it to the queu