Therefore, the fundamental
emphasis in biblical study is not simply «what it means to me now» but what the writer meant to say then.
I was elected president of the Bible Club in high school, and in college I minored
in biblical studies at a college famous for teaching students to analyze the world with a «biblical worldview.»
I earned my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (Psy.D) from Biola University's Rosemead School of Psychology; prior to this, I received my BA in Psychology with a
minor in Biblical Studies, also from Biola.
Source: Robert M. Bowman, Jr., Director of the Insti - tute for Religious Research (IRR),
MA in Biblical Studies and Theology
This is an opinion piece... and «Prof. Joel Baden is a specialist in the Pentateuch, Biblical Hebrew, and disability
theory in biblical studies...» Tell me why you think he is unqualified to give an opinion, much like you just did?
The greatest theologians in this tradition, up to and including Reinhold Niebuhr, were parish pastors without Ph.D. s; their educators once envisioned an alliance between university and church for the sake of lay
education in biblical studies.
To further fulfill God's calling on her life, she's currently pursuing a
B.A. in Biblical Studies at Colorado Christian University.
He went to college at St. Olaf in Minnesota, and after a year as a Fulbright scholar at the Sorbonne in 1951 he attended Luther Seminary in Minneapolis» where, over the next three years, he learned the rudiments of Lutheran dogmatics but little of the Church Fathers and almost nothing of modern
developments in biblical studies and systematic theology.
Jesus in an Age of Controversy By Douglas Groothuis Harvest House, 374 pages, $ 9.99 An evangelistic and somewhat polemical response to the «Jesus Seminar» and other high
jinks in biblical studies.
Along with Derrida's deconstruction, Michel Foucault's study of the complex nature of power and truth and Fredric Jameson's neo-Marxist analysis of ideology have been deeply influential on
postmodernism in biblical studies.
As the literary study of the Bible was gaining ground, however rapid changes were taking place in the larger field of literary study, changes that were quickly
reflected in biblical studies.
Keener's secondary thesis is even more ambitious and will prove much more
controversial in biblical studies and the wider culture, given the recent outbreak of jejune New Atheism.
A doctoral
student in biblical studies at Union, her research involves literary strategies for reading biblical and pseudepigraphic texts.
In my book The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and Historical Criticism: Jews and
Christians in Biblical Studies (Westminster / John Knox, 1993), I endorsed a German scholar's judgment that it is a «fact, derived from the history of religion, that the Old Testament witness is a witness out of a non-Christian religion.»
The new president of Cedarville University, a Christian college in Ohio, has decided that no woman shall teach a
man in any Biblical studies.
This is not to deny that those who are
educated in biblical studies and at the same time enlightened by the Spirit are able to understand the cultural and theological ramifications of the revelation of the Word of God far better than those who are illiterate in these areas.
Included in the group were Herbert Willett and Edward Scribner Ames, who were beginning to establish national
reputations in biblical studies and the philosophy of religion respectively.
In doing so we were in line with the historic Evangelical insistence on the sufficiency of Scripture and the recent Roman Catholic
renaissance in biblical studies.
Too much theologizing is based merely upon the pale reflection of itself which it sees in philosophy, and needs a more thorough
grounding in biblical studies.
ARCHBISHOP RANJITH: We know that in the past few centuries along with the growing tide of philosophical immanentism, rationalism and empiricism new
trends in biblical study came to the fore bringing with them quite an upheaval.
He worried, though, that the good fruits of modernity,
particularly in biblical studies and theology, had not taken deep enough root in the Church, especially among the episcopate, and that the council would only frustrate the pent - up longings of the Catholic world.
Fortress, which was one division of the Lutheran Church in America's separately incorporated Board of Publication, under two decades of strong leadership has drawn on wide European connections to build a high - quality program (especially
strong in biblical studies and theology) that has had a central role in Protestant publishing.
Similar developments are occurring in most disciplines, though the evidence is
murkiest in biblical studies, because experiment there is still the touchiest subject in evangelicalism.
Mentorship by someone
qualified in biblical studies / theology seems much more productive than appointing someone who will be «right» regardless of qualifications.
Yes, there are some Pentecostal scholars who are respected outside the movement: Russell Spittler served as a dean at Fuller Theological Seminary for years; Gordon Fee taught New Testament at Regent College in Vancouver and produced highly regarded
volumes in biblical studies; Amos Yong holds a Ph.D. from Boston University and teaches in the doctoral program at Regent University Graduate School of Divinity.
Literary scholars as different in approach as Northrop Frye and T. R. Henn have ploughed furrows of their
own in biblical studies.
After being appointed lecturer in philosophy at the new University of Wittenberg, Luther received a
baccalaureate in biblical studies and qualified to lecture in Bible.
The survey of commentaries and expository guides gives some indication of the diversity of method at work
in biblical studies today.