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Here are some highlights from tonight’s lecture at University of Toronto:

Creation Renewed (Rom 8.18-25)

"The ass is puzzled and patient, waiting for the Children of God to open their eyes to reality, yet we blame it on the donkey."
— referring to 8.21 while using Balaam & the donkey as illustration on the relationship between humans and the creation.

"The world is waiting for the redeemed resurrected-being to run it"
— referring to the creation waiting for its liberation & its own exodus.

"Getting rid of Evil is not the same as getting rid of the world, but redeeming it."
— when talking about present-day interest on Gnosticism & Anti-terrorist Compaigns.

"The Righteousness of God is God’s Restorative Justice….We [as Christians] are called to be restored restorers, justified justificators"
—  from one of his concluding remarks.

Things I learned (not about Romans 8):

1. Everything is Exodus — no really, EVERYTHING!
2. His wife Maggie is a saint, he said it himself.
3. His new book Evil and the Justice of God (not out in North America yet, but in UK) is on Romans 8.