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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve just posted my review of the book The Living Word of God: Rethinking the Theology of the Bible by Ben Witherington III.
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What has been called the “New Atheism” (NA) represented by such writers as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and some others, has come under tremendous scrutiny and virtual dismissal in many circles. I agree with others that the New Atheism is really an old atheism, just not argued quite as well, but I also think that [...]
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 [...]
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Stephen Chapman of Duke Divinity School has allowed me to publish his review of God’s Word in Human Words: An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical Scholarship by Kenton Sparks. This is an expanded version of Dr. Chapman’s review originally presented at the annual meeting of the Society of [...]
I’ve just posted a new book review: Inerrant Wisdom: Science and Inerrancy in Biblical Persective
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 [...]
“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 [...]
