4 Quotes & Sayings By Peter J Leithart

Peter J. Leithart is the John W. Rayne Professor of Church History and Literature at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, GA. He previously taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Union University Read more

He has written three books: The Bible and the Future (1994), The Battle for the Bible (2001), and God's Conflict with the World (2006). His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, First Things, and Christianity Today, and he has contributed essays to Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism (2000) and The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (2007).

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The Triune God is in the world, nearer to us than we are to ourselves, yet the world is also encompassed by his loving presence. He does have the whole world in his hands, even while he inhabits the whole world. For Christians, being saved means being caught up into this communion, indwelled by God and indwelling in him, and being opened up so that other people may have room in us and we in them. Peter J. Leithart
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The Triune God is in the world, nearer to us than we are to ourselves, yet the world is also encompassed by his loving presence. He does have the whole world in his hands, even while he inhabits the whole world. For Christians, being saved means being caught up into this communion, indwelled by God and indwelling in him, and being opened up so that other people have room in us and we in them. Peter J. Leithart
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The Bible is useful because it opens our eyes, and because it’s highly impractical to walk through life with our eyes closed. Peter J. Leithart