I just received my copy of Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible (Brazos) and am eager to alert interested readers about it. Smith is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology at University of Notre Dame, and his book looks at evangelical views of Scripture from a sociological perspective. To summarize, Smith shows how evangelical “biblicism” (his term) crumbles under its [...]
Both my upcoming Ecclesiastes commentary and The Evolution of Adam can now be pre-ordered through Amazon. I am told by the publishers (Eerdmans and Brazos, respectively) the first 1000 customers will receive a new car, but I have not yet been able to confirm that information. They may actually have [...]
For those of you interested, here is the ad for The Evolution of Adam in the online Brazos catalogue.
One of my favorite authors is Stephen Lawhead. His novels largely center on medieval themes with a tactful Christian undercurrent. Lawhead weaves together religious and secular themes in a way that forces one to look at the Christian faith outside of familiar language and trappings. His novel Byzantium is set in medieval Ireland and recounts the journeys of a [...]
In will soon begin working on my contribution to Zondervan’s latest “Counterpoints” book, this one on inerrancy. The editors are James Merrick and Stephen Garrett. There are four other contributors: John Franke, Kevin Vanhoozer, Michael Bird, and Al Mohler. As many of you know, the Counterpoints series invites authors of different, even diametrically opposing, views to write [...]
I am trying to finish up edits on a chapter I am writing for a book tentatively titled, The Bible and the Believer: How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously, due out next year with Oxford University Press. The idea for the book came out of a symposium I participated in at the University of Pennsylvania [...]
