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The Sacred Page is a blog written by four professors of Scripture and Theology, Michael Barber, John Bergmsa, Brant Pitre, and John Kincaid.

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Those Lousy Hypocrites in the Church! 16th Sunday of OT Our Readings for this upcoming Lord’s Day involve a meditation on both God’s mercy and his justice, and the complex way both virtues of God are expressed in his government of human affairs in general and his people in particular.  We see that God’s apparent tolerance of evil in the short-term is an expression of […]The Sacred PageJul 14 2020
Cultivating the Seed: 15th Week of OTOrdinary Time focuses on the growth of the Church.  I would prefer we called it “Extraordinary Time,” because there is nothing ordinary about the Second Person of the Divinity becoming en-fleshed in our presence through the Sacrament. Be that as it may, the Readings for this Lord’s Day are clearly united by the motif of […]The Sacred PageJul 10 2020
Ancient Christian Writers on the Interconnectedness of the Beatitudes: Insights from D. H. Williams, Matthew (The Church’s Bible)I recently reviewed D. H. Williams’ new installment in The Church’s Bible series, which is entitled, Matthew: Interpreted by Early Christian Commentators (Eerdmans, 2018) for Religious Studies Review. It was a fascinating read. I won’t reproduce my RSR review here, but I did want to say a bit more about an aspect of Williams’ work […]The Sacred PageJul 07 2020
Gentle King of the Universe: 14th Sunday of OTAt this time in the Church year, it can feel like we’re “stuck” in Ordinary Time until the end of November.  Not that that’s a bad thing!  Ordinary Time has extraordinary insights. This Sunday we find Jesus more or less in the middle of his earthly ministry (Matt 11), and the Readings are marked by […]The Sacred PageJul 03 2020
Children for Abraham (Matthew 3:9)The first verse of Matthew’s Gospel identifies Jesus as “the son of David, the son of Abraham.” Compared to his Davidic pedigree, Jesus as “son of Abraham” has until recently been relatively neglected. Leroy Huizenga’s 2009 book The New Isaac was a tremendous leap forward for appreciating Matthew’s presentation of Jesus as “son of Abraham.”[1] […]The Sacred PageJul 02 2020
Remembering James Dunn and the Time I Got to Write a Book with HimThe world of New Testament Studies was saddened last week to learn of the passing of James D. G. Dunn, one of the premier scholars in biblical scholarship. Many touching tributes have been written, including those by Scot McKnight (with some words from Jeff Wisdom), Nijay Gupta, James Ernest, Loren Stuckenbruck, James McGrath, and B. […]The Sacred PageJul 01 2020
The Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul: The Upward Call of GodToday is the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. One of my favorite passages in Paul’s epistles is Philippians 3:12–14: Not that I have already obtained this* or am already made perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that […]The Sacred PageJun 29 2020
Accepting a Prophet: 13th Week of OTGod is generous, and he rewards those who help his servants as generously as he rewards his servants themselves. That is the message of the Readings for this 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time.  We begin with an account from 2 Kings concerning the reward of a wife of the town of Shunem, who was consistently […]The Sacred PageJun 27 2020
NEW BOOK: Catherine Hamilton’s, The Death of Jesus in Matthew (Cambridge University Press)One important recent contribution to Matthean studies is Catherine Sider Hamilton’s, The Death of Jesus in Matthew: Innocent Blood and the End of the Exile, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 167 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). I would like to share a few thoughts about it here. This monograph was a real eye-opener […]The Sacred PageJun 22 2020
Fear No One: 12th Week of Ordinary TimeAfter the celebrations of Pentecost, Trinity, and Corpus Christi, this Sunday finds us transitioning back to Ordinary Time, and the transition is a bit painful.  The Readings for this Sunday shift right back into the reality of persecution in the Christian life, as we read about Jesus advising the apostles to be prepared for the […]The Sacred PageJun 19 2020
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