Hidden Providence
Peter J. Leithart
December 13, 2005
Category: Bible - OT - Esther
Luther was famously hostile to the book of Esther. Luther was also famously enamoured of the idea of the Deus absconditus, the hidden God. These positions are inconsistent: No book of the Bible better narrates the power and providence of the hidden God than Esther, which refrains even from naming Him.
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