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 [...]
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 [...]
Cover via Amazon The Review of Biblical Literature has posted a review by Stephen Moyise of Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. This Zondervan volume was edited by Kenneth Berding and Jonathan Lunde, and featured Walter Kaiser, Darrell Bock, and me, each defending a different position on the often curious [...]
Here is an exchange between Bruce Waltke and me that appeared in the most recent issue of the Westminster Theological Journal. The exchange is reproduced here with permission of the editor. In WTJ there is also a surrejoinder by Waltke (a response to my response). It is not included here, in part to respect the [...]
I respond to Ken Schenck’s review of Inspiration and Incarnation.
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, [...]
The second part of my “Reflections on I&I” (see intro in post immediately below) is now posted. It and all the future installments of this essay will be linked from the I&I page on this site, or click the title below to go directly to part: The Authority of Scripture is a Function of Its [...]
My article “Preliminary Observations on an Incarnational Model of Scripture” from the Calvin Theological Journal is now available for download on the Articles and Essays page.
