Category: Interpreting The New Testament
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The Inception of Christmas
Because it is Christmas Eve after all, I’ll keep this short. I would imagine you have plenty of last minute things to get done today, or you’ve gotten everything done and are spending time with your family and/or friends. In either case, you’re probably not interested in reading a lengthy post on theology, even if…
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Final Authority Doesn’t Mean Only Authority
Peter Leithart has an interesting article over at Credenda/Adenda interacting with some of Christian Smith’s thought. In The Bible Made Impossible, Smith critiques a view of Scripture called “biblicism,” and in his How to Go from Being a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in Ninety-Five Difficult Steps Smith also critique sola Scriptura. Leithart responds with this:…
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The King Jesus Gospel
Scot McKnight is the Karl A. Olsson professor in religious studies at North Park University in Chicago. He blogs regularly at Jesus Creed. This is the first book of his I’ve read and I’d like to say I’m inclined to check out some of his other books. In our preaching class, one of the methods for…
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Historical Theology: The Canonicity and Inspiration of Scripture
[This post is part of the Historical Theology mini-review series] Like Grudem’s layout in Systematic Theology, Allison starts with the Doctrine of the Word of God in Historical Theology. Each author covers the canonicity, inspiration, authority, inerrancy, sufficiency, clarity, and necessity of Scripture. Allison starts with canonicity, while Grudem starts with inerrancy. Allison combines sufficiency and necessity into…
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Why There Are No “Lost” Gospels
I finished up reading through N. T. Wright’s Surprised By Hope this morning while sitting poolside. Toward the end, he made a parenthetical comment on why certain “gospels” were left out of the New Testament. It occurs in the last chapter where he is clarifying how he thinks the mission of the church needs reshaping.…
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BECNT Commentaries on Clearance
Just noticed that Westminster’s bookstore has the Baker Exegetical Commentaries on the New Testament on clearance (50% off). The titles available are: Matthew Mark Luke 1:1-9:50 Luke 9:51-24:53 John Acts Romans 1 Corinthians Ephesians Philippians James 1 Peter Jude & 2 Peter 1-3 John Revelation I’ve got several of these myself in Logos and have…
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Jesus, Paul and the People of God
Overview This book is edited by Nicholas Perrin and Richard Hays and has essays authored by: Jeremy Begbie Markus Bockmuehl Richard B. Hays Edith M. Humphrey Sylvia Keesmaat and Brian Walsh Nicholas Perrin Marianne Meye Thompson Kevin J. Vanhoozer Now, originally these were all lectures delivered at Wheaton’s 2010 Theology Conference, which was, as one…
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What Tom Wright Really Said
A couple of years ago, I started wrestling with some of the issues related to the New Perspective of Paul. It was while I was in soteriology class, so the focus was of course on justification, and it was also about this time that N. T. Wright produced a book in response to John Piper’s…
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Critique of Introducing Covenant Theology
Overall, I am in some ways sympathetic to the project Michael Horton is attempting in Introducing Covenant Theology. I would say I like the idea of it all, but he leaves many questions unanswered. I would consider myself Reformed in my theological leanings, or you could use the word Calvinist(ic) if you wanted to. However,…
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The Qualifications of a Real Theologian
Over the weekend I read another book by Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. I would highly recommend his more recent book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us as well. Both books actually go well together and complement each other. In A Whole New Mind, Pink (not to…