God's Kitchen: Theology You Can Eat and DrinkThe Old Testament is a violent, bloody book, but the more we modern Christians neglect it, the more our gospel loses its teeth. This little book will call you out, cut you up, lift you up, and set you on fire. It begins where all spiritual meat does: not at the dinner table, not in the kitchen, nor even at the market. It begins in the abattoir. The God of the Old Testament is a butcher only because the Christ of the New Testament is a chef. Real theology deals with food, with milk and honey, flesh and blood, bread, oil, and wine. It is nourishment for children, wisdom for kings, and courage for prophets. God gave us food to teach us about life and death. God gave us sacrifice to teach us about death and resurrection. We prepare food for ourselves as God prepares us for Himself. The culinary art is close to the heart of the God who is a consuming fire. |
Contents
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Cooking as eschatology | 29 |
Postmillennial suffering | 37 |
The whole bloody Bible | 45 |
Love in the abstract | 51 |
Eat local and die | 55 |
Knowing as we are known | 65 |
Knowledge and wisdom | 73 |
Horns of Moses | 173 |
Bone and flesh | 179 |
Skin for skin | 187 |
Birds and beasts | 197 |
The greatest consumer | 203 |
Spat out at Jesustable | 209 |
Kids in the kitchen | 215 |
Seed flesh skin | 223 |
Omega males | 77 |
True gravity | 81 |
The expendables | 87 |
Behind closed doors | 95 |
Fasting as sacrament | 101 |
Jacob s hollow | 107 |
Joints and marrow | 117 |
Upon this rock | 121 |
Binding and loosing | 125 |
Silence of the Lamb | 129 |
Creation and Communion | 135 |
Deus ex machina | 143 |
Revivals and farming | 151 |
A cast of thousands | 157 |
The glory are we | 165 |
Eye and tooth | 169 |
Half the blood | 231 |
Recipe for disaster | 237 |
No more spoonfeeding | 241 |
Counterfeit virtue | 247 |
Incantation and incarnation | 257 |
The sun of righteousness | 265 |
The forbidden feast | 269 |
Do not harm the oil the wine | 275 |
Being Cornucopia | 281 |
Out of the eater | 289 |
Breakfast at dawn | 301 |
The hidden power of Groundhog Day | 305 |
Corpus Christi | 311 |
Eschatology as cooking | 321 |
Figures transfigured | 329 |