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  • Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament

    G. K. Beale is the kind of guy who reads books while brushing his teeth. In fact, he read The Resurrection of The Son of God a few pages a day this way. In some ways, that’s about all you need to know about the kind of scholar Beale is. “Meticulous” sounds petty, but Beale is that…

  • Are You An Implied Reader of The New Testament?

    In Markus Bockmuehl’s Seeing the Word: Refocusing New Testament Study (the inaugural volume in Baker’s (Studies in Theological Interpretation), he presents a proposal for an implied reader of the New Testament. This is in order to facilitate a better understanding of how to approach New Testament studies. I’ve yet to see how he fleshes out this picture…

  • 12 Reasons Jesus Had To Become A Man

    Over this past weekend, I was able to sit down and read Bruce Ware’s latest book The Man Jesus Christ: Theological Reflections on The Humanity of Christ. I’ll post a full review sometime next week maybe, but in the meantime, here’s some food for thought. In response to a claim by some that Jesus’ male gender…

  • Four Views On The Apostle Paul

    Michael F. Bird ed., Four View on The Apostle Paul. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, July, 2012. 240 pp. Paperback, $17.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Zondervan Academic for the review copy! While Understanding Biblical Theology received the first vote, Four View on The Apostle Paul received the most votes for review. Though you may not know it, the day before Thanksgiving…

  • Perspectivalism In The Gospels

    Each of the four Gospels gives us the truth about the life of Jesus. No one Gospel is exhaustive, nor does it claim to be – each is selective. And each makes choices about how it is going to tell the history. Each is interested in highlighting theological significances and relationships to the Old Testament. Matthew is…

  • Set Apart By Kisses

    With these scriptural themes in mind, the depth of the beloved’s words to and about her lover begins to become apparent. If the “best ointments” are those given by the Lord to us—if, as Leviticus puts it, the “anointing oil of the Lord” (oleum unctionis Domini; 10:6–11; 21:10–12) is what sets apart the priests of…

  • The Purifying Flame of Christ’s Passion

    The Lord, therefore, your scriptural imagination can tell you, wants to kiss your lips with a passion, to redden them with the redness of his passion for you. The “scarlet thread” of the beloved’s lips, stained by the blood of the Lord’s passion and inflamed by the heat of his kisses, belongs to the Lord’s…

  • Stephen Wellum on How People Put Together The Bible

    Within evangelical theology, dispensational and covenant theology largely frame how people “put together” their Bible and, as such, function as dominant theological viewpoints. Each “system” serves as an interpretive grid for understanding the story line of Scripture and thus functions as “whole-bible theologies” (i.e. biblical theologies) which lead to systematic theological conclusions. In this way,…

  • Christ-Centered Biblical Theology

    I don’t remember when I first heard of Graeme Goldsworthy, but it was probably at some point during my time in Dallas. I’ve had my eye on his Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics, which I guess would make a good companion to this volume. Eventually, I’ll pull the trigger, but since his Christ-Centered Biblical Theology was released earlier this year,…

  • Stephen Wellum on The Backdrop of Kingdom Through Covenant

    Dispensationalism and covenant theology (along with their varieties) largely frame how evangelicals put their Bibles together. Each view attempts to serve as an interpretive grid for how to understand the metanarrative of Scripture. In this way, both systems function as examples of biblical theologies, i.e., “whole-Bible theologies,” which then lead to various systematic theological conclusions. Yet it…