Inspiration and Incarnation: The Website

Today I am launching a new website dedicated to my 2005 book Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament. This is not a blog but the official site where interested readers can get information about the book. This site is a good place to point people to who may have questions [...]

Lecture tonight…weather permitting.

I am speaking tonight at Philadelphia Biblical University at 7:00 on “How Scripture is Shaped by Culture.” Let’s see if the weather decides to hold up. It’s been a rough one thus far.

My Review of Beale’s Erosion of Inerrancy

With my permission as well as that of the Bulletin for Biblical Research, Art Boulet has posted my published response to Greg Beale’s The Erosion of Inerrancy in Evangelicalism.

Guest Posts at Science and the Sacred Blog

My friends (and now colleagues) at the BioLogos Foundation recently asked me to write a series of blog posts for them concerning how an incarnational approach to Scripture might contribute toward clearing away some misunderstandings that have exacerbated the  perceived conflict between the Bible and science. The first three posts in that series are linked [...]

Guest Post on Science & an Incarnational Approach to the Bible

Starting today Science and the Sacred, the blog of the BioLogos Foundation, is running a series of guest post by me, titled “Science and an Incarnational Approach to the Bible.” Click here to read the first post.

Speaking in Victoria, BC

October 24-25 Emmanuel Baptist Church & University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia “Seeing the NT as Christian Talmud: Toward Understanding the Nature of Christian Scripture” – at EBC, October 24, 10-12 noon “It Was a Rough Century: Challenges to Conventional Notions of the Bible from the 1800s until Today” – at U.Vic., October 25, 7 [...]

Fleshing Out an Incarnational Model of the Bible

I’ve been wanting to jot down some of these thoughts for quite some time, so here they are. As I have listened to reactions to my use of an Incarnational Analogy (IA) to describe the nature of the Bible, it seems that there are some misunderstandings that persist in some popular and even academic settings—irrespective [...]

Further Interaction with Bruce Waltke: Introduction Part 2

This is the second of several posts continuing the exchange between Bruce Waltke and me, posted earlier on this site, that first appeared in the Westminster Theological Journal. Posted here is Waltke’s follow-up to that exchange (PDF), which has already appeared in the latest issue of WTJ (and is also posted here with permission.) Read [...]

Authors Enter Discussion of I&I and GWHW at Jesus Creed

I wanted to alert my readers that there is an interesting disscussion of my book (Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament) and my friend Kenton Sparks’s book (God’s Word in Human Words: An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical Scholarship) over on Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed blog. The discussion has been [...]

I&I and GWHW on Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed Blog

“RJS,” a frequent guest contributor to Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed Blog on Beliefnet, has posted what I guess we’d call a review of a review. She comments on my posting this week of Part Two of my review of Kenton Sparks’s book God’s Word in Human Words. She also makes some comments about my book [...]