I participate in academic scholarship because I believe there is such a thing as the truth, that all truth is God’s truth, and that the truth is worth seeking, even at significant personal cost. Continue Reading »
James M. Hamilton Jr. joins the podcast to discuss his book, Psalms Volume I: Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary. Continue Reading »
William Mounce joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Why I Believe In the Bible: Answers to Real Questions and Doubts People Have about the Bible. Continue Reading »
Christopher Kaczor joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity: The Search for a Meaningful Life. Continue Reading »
John's Gospel challenges modernity's one-dimensional reasoning.
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In some ways, we do read the Bible like any other book. But this observation comes after the recognition of God’s providential economy in Christ. Continue Reading »
Accusations of anti-Judaism are flying in Germany. In a 2013 essay, “Die Kirche und das Alte Testament” (The Church and the Old Testament), Notger Slenczka, a Protestant theologian at the Humboldt University of Berlin, argued that the Old Testament “should not have canonical validity in the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Fourfold Gospel: A Theological Reading of the New Testament Portraits of Jesusby francis watsonbaker academic, 224 pages, $24.99 Ever since the pathbreaking work of Brevard Childs in the 1970s, what has come to be called “canon criticism” (as distinct from source criticism and form . . . . Continue Reading »
Paul as a Problem in History and Culture: The Apostle and His Critics through the Centuriesby patrick graybaker, 274 pages, $32.99 Albert Schweitzer once remarked that the quest for the historical Jesus revealed more about the questers than it did about Jesus: They saw in the historical figure . . . . Continue Reading »
During the debate over “biblical inerrancy” that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s, I remember someone observing that Harold Lindsell’s 1976 book, The Battle for the Bible, which pretty much got that debate going, was more a theory of institutional change than it . . . . Continue Reading »
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