Nothing but time

Noah is the restart of the human race after the whole human race has been wiped out. Abraham, also a new Adam, restarts the human race, begins a renewal of humanity and creation, within the world. He is leaven in the lump. A restart for humanity within post-Babelic humanity is a trickier business . . . . Continue Reading »

God-breathed

Craig Allert’s A High View of Scripture? The Authority of the Bible and the Formation of the New Testament Canon (Evangelical Ressourcement: Ancient Sources for the Church’s Future) is mostly about the implications of the history of canon-formation for our understanding of what the . . . . Continue Reading »

Good and Necessary Consequences

As the subtitle suggests, Carlos Bovell’s By Good and Necessary Consequence: A Preliminary Genealogy of Biblicist Foundationalism is a genealogical critique of what he calls biblicist foundationalism, defined as “the decision to restrict confessional theology to the deduction of good . . . . Continue Reading »

Stuck in the Shema

In John 10:30, Jesus says “I and the Father are One.” The Jews think it blasphemous. Why? Jesus’ statement seems to be a riff on the Shema - “Hear, O Israel, YHWH your God is One.” Jesus sticks Himself into the Shema: Not YHWH along, but “I and YHWH” are . . . . Continue Reading »

Regensburg Reclaimed?

In an article evaluating RC Sproul’s teaching on justification in a 2004 issue of JETS , Matthew Heckel concludes that Sproul’s work is misleading and misses the opportunity of the moment: “Sproul’s assertion that the Reformers considered sola fide t he essence of t he . . . . Continue Reading »

Fertile earth

Frymer-Kensky again, commending on the third day of the creation week: “on the very same day that the earth is created, God also creates the plants and trees. This double creation on the third day emphasizes the significance of the fact that on the very same day God creates the earth, God . . . . Continue Reading »

Pedagogy of Weakness

In her fascinating In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth , Tikva Frymer-Kensky argues that the Bible does not have any notion of “feminine wiles”: “There is no woman’s toolkit.” Men and women use the rhetoric of . . . . Continue Reading »