Mark Galli
Editor-in-Chief, Christianity Today |
Saturday, December 29, 2018
When Is the Day of Judgment?
For
some of us, it’s every day, when at the end of the day, we contemplate
our thoughts and actions and say a prayer of confession before we nod
off to sleep. For others, it’s December 31 when we look over our
resolutions from the previous year. For Paul, it was something more
cosmic and full of wonder: the coming “Day of Jesus Christ.”
This review of The Righteous and Merciful Judge: The Day of the Lord in the Life and Theology of Paul
points to a book that I hope is successful in helping us see how
central the day of judgment is—in even the New Testament—and also how it
is actually good news for us.
Another CT offering that may help you reflect on the moral life we’re striving to grow in until the Day of the Lord: this week’s Quick to Listen podcast,
featured on January 2. It’s an interview with Jay Wood, professor of
philosophy at Wheaton College, and full of fine insights from a man who
has spent many years thinking about virtue ethics from a Christian
perspective.
Grace and peace,
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