We Won! Figuring Jabbok as Liturgy

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Notes

This is taken from the Missale Romanum, 1970, but versions of the Exsultet can be found in most worship books.

Norbert Lohfink, SJ, The Christian Meaning of the Old Testament, trans. R. A. Wilson (Milwaukee: Bruce, 1968), 70. Further page references given parenthetically.

Ephraim Radner, “Sublimity and Providence: The Spiritual Discipline of Figural Reading,” Ex Auditu 18 (2002): 15570.

Gerhard von Rad, Genesis: A Commentary, The Old Testament Library (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1971), 325, emphasis added.

James Kugel, Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible as It Was at the Start of the Common Era (Cambridge: Harvard, 1998), 400, note 15. See Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 125:5.

David Ford, Self and Salvation: Being Transformed, Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 195.

James B. Torrance, Worship, Community and the God of Triune Grace (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1996), 30.

Frances M. Young, Brokenness and Blessing: Towards a Biblical Spirituality (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007), 47.

Nathan D. Mitchell, Meeting Mystery: Liturgy, Worship, Sacraments, Theology in Global Perspective, ed. Peter C. Phan (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2006), xv, emphasis original.

Walter Brueggemann, Genesis: Interpretation (Atlanta: John Knox, 1982), 267.

Mitchell, Meeting Mystery, 41.

Apostolic Constitutions 7.36.1, as quoted by Kugel, Traditions of the Bible, 125.

Kugel, Traditions of the Bible, 387–8.

Mitchell, Meeting Mystery, 43.

Brueggemann, Genesis, 270.

This article lays aside crucial philosophical questions about the relation of time and eternity. For one foray into an answer that would undergird and require these kinds of typological performances, see Robert W. Jenson, Systematic Theology, vol. 1, The Triune God (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).

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Brent Laytham

Brent Laytham is the new dean of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology of St. Mary's Seminary & University in Baltimore.