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 [...]
ANCIENT WORD, GOD’S WORD
A Look at the Old Testament & Its Problems
A weekend seminar with DR. TREMPER LONGMAN III & DR. PETER ENNS
“How can we think of ancient mythology as the word of God?”
“Isn’t the God of the Old Testament nasty & vengeful? He’s not like Jesus at all!”
“The Old Testament simply can’t be trusted.”
“Modern [...]
The Act 3 Biblical Forum presents “Reading the Old Testament as Jesus Did” with Dr. Peter Enns, October 30-31, 2009, at the Holiday Inn, Carol Stream, IL.
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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 [...]
In this and several subsequent posts, I intend to continue 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 [...]
Here’s another video from my interview with Zondervan Academic:
I continue my responses to Ken Schenck’s review of Inspiration and Incarnation.
I respond to Ken Schenck’s review of Inspiration and Incarnation.
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A few days ago I received the following email from an agnostic reader of this website. The email is copied here in its [...]
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 the term [...]
