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Tag: hermeneutics

  • The Pandemic as an Apocalypse of the Body

    This was my entry into the Archbishop’s Annual Essay Contest. It was not selected as one of the winners. I. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. On March 13, 2020, the U.S. President, Donald Trump, declared a National Emergency. The events, both nationally and globally, that then transpired in…

  • Typology and Application

    The tenth chapter of Hebrews speaks of the most basic understanding of typology, referring to the relationship between the offerings given during the Mosaic Covenant as a “shadow of the good things to come” as opposed to the “true form of these realities.” This distinction between ‘shadow’ and ‘true form’ – or “type” and “anti-type”…