In Part 1 of my review of God’s Word in Human Words by Kenton Sparks, I set out what I saw as the central tenets of the book. We now continue with my report on a panel discussion of the book in which I participated this past fall. PART 2: SBL Panel Discussion On November [...]
I continue my responses to Ken Schenck’s review of Inspiration and Incarnation.
I continue to respond to Ken Schenck’s review of my book Inspiration and Incarnation.
I respond to Ken Schenck’s review of Inspiration and Incarnation.
Criticism: There are important scholars who disagree with Inspiration and Incarnation, some even strongly. Disagreement is what happens in scholarship. If disagreement were a barometer of truth, only those in power would ever be deemed correct. Further, this criterion lends itself to selective application, which I find rooted in the cult of the personality. To [...]
Wednesday, Oct. 22nd, 7pm Duke Divinity School Westbrook Building 0016 Peter Enns – Author of the controversial Inspiration and Incarnation, Enns was until recently a professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary. His academic interests include: Old Testament Theology, Biblical Theology, Wisdom Literature (esp. Ecclesiastes), the NT’s use of the OT, Second Temple literature, [...]
Criticism: I&I denies inerrancy I have also addressed this issue in a different context elsewhere on this website, but I would like to flesh this out a bit here. Defining “inerrancy” is certainly a topic of discussion among Evangelicals, and opinions are voiced from one extreme of maintaining older paradigms at all costs to jettisoning [...]
Criticism 2: The thoughts expressed in I&I are merely one way of looking at the issues. There are other possible solutions. This is correct. It is also a rather unhelpful statement given that any attempt at meaningful communication suffers the same fate. Any attempt to address subjects like the Bible and the ANE, theological diversity, [...]
Criticism: I&I is inconsistent with the Reformed faith in that it is inconsistent with past articulations of that faith. Most importantly, it is inconsistent with the first chapter of the Westminster Confession of Faith. On the last point (WCF), I have already expressed myself on this website. I won’t repeat my earlier comments here, other [...]
Introduction Over the past few months I have given some thought about how to continue the dialogue over the issues articulated in I&I (Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament, Baker 2005). During that time there have been a few responses circulating the cyber-world, print publications, not to mention numerous extended [...]
