New Article: The Speaking God

Urga, Abeneazer G. “The Speaking God: Divine Revelation in Hebrews and Its Implications for African Biblical Hermeneutics.” Conspectus 40 (October 2025): 18–30.

Hebrews Highlights - December 2025 - February 2026

I am catching up on blog posts. Here are the Hebrews Highlights for December 2025 through mid-February 2026:

 

Ken Schenck continues his narrative journey through Hebrews:

          Remember the Good Times (Hebrews 6, 10)

          The Impossibility of Repentance (Heb. 6:3-8; 10:26-31)

          The Rhetorical Strategy of Hebrews

          An Eternal Priest (Hebrews 5, 7)

          The New Covenant (Hebrews 8)

          A Better Sacrifice and Sanctuary (Hebrews 9 and 10)

          The Cheering Witnesses (chapter 11)

          The Discipline of the Lord (Hebrews 12)

          Celebrating the Enthroned Christ (Hebrews 1)

          The Logic of Salvation (Hebrews 2)

Brian Davidson argues that Reading the OT Figurally Is Desperately Important and this is what Hebrews does.

He also sees a four-pattern match between Melchizedek and Jesus.

Phil Cecil and Ryan Meyer discusses The Use of Psalm 8 in Hebrews 2 in the Theologically Driven podcast

New Book: The Transcendent Christ

John P. Joy and Peter A. Kwasniewski, eds. The Transcendent Christ: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews. Os Justi Press, 2026.

 

"The Transcendent Christ makes available the conferences given by faculty at a summer study session sponsored by the Saint Albert the Great Center for Scholastic Studies and held in Norcia, Italy. The overarching theme was the Letter to the Hebrews. These conferences explored aspects of the text as well as its reception in Catholic theology and liturgy.

• Dr. John P. Joy speaks of “The Sacrifice of Christ as an Act of Vicarious Satisfaction.”
• Rev. Thomas Crean, O.P., explores “How Is the Mass a Sacrifice?”
• Rev. Yosyp Veresh considers “The Symbolism of the First Entrance of the Holy Synaxis in the Mystagogy of St. Maximus the Confessor.”
• Rev. Cassian Folsom, O.S.B., presents “Biblical and Liturgical Typology in the Letter to the Hebrews.”
• Dr. Peter Kwasniewski expounds “The Christian Liturgy as Sacrificium Laudis in the Epistle to the Hebrews.”
• Br. Evagrius Hayden, O.S.B., addresses “Credere oportet accedentem ad Deum: On the Nature and Necessity of Faith.”
• Dr. Daniel Lendman discusses “Christ as Head of the Human Race.”
• Rev. Thomas Crean, O.P., presides over a Quæstiones Disputatæ in which three questions are debated: Whether he who performs the rites of the Old Law offends God?; Whether the shedding of blood is necessary for the remission of sins?; Whether to please God it is sufficient to believe that He exists and is a rewarder of those who seek Him?
• In a chapter specially commissioned for this new edition, Dr. Nathan Schmiedicke masterfully defends “The Pauline Authorship of Hebrews,” espoused by a dominant tradition in East and West.

Both scholars and the general public will find these proceedings full of new and valuable insights into one of the most majestic and mysterious writings in the New Testament—and will better understand the enormous influence it has wielded over the centuries."

Hebrews: The Whole Way

From Daniel Fulton:

"The Francis Asbury Society will be holding a Monday night Bible Study during the spring on the letter to the Hebrews! We're excited to have Dr John Oswalt leading our weekly Bible Study again. You can attend in person in Wilmore or join us online like I'll be doing most weeks. Sessions are recorded so if you're unable to join live you can go back later and rewatch the session!

 

Maybe you'd like to get a small group together from your church and go through the study together, if you are watching together as a church or small group let FAS know!"

 

WHEN: Starting Monday, January 26, 2026, 7:00–8:00 p.m. ET 

 

Register here:

 

Hebrews: The Whole Way. A Bible Study with Dr. John N. Oswalt

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