This blog will serve as a place for myself (and others) to write about the various ways that a cross-centered theology might intersect
with biblical scholarship, politics, ethics, pop culture, and other academic disciplines.
This blog will serve as a place for myself (and others) to write about the various ways that a cross-centered theology might intersect
with biblical scholarship, politics, ethics, pop culture, and other academic disciplines.
This blog will serve as a place for myself (and others) to write about the various ways that a cross-centered theology might intersect
with biblical scholarship, politics, ethics, pop culture, and other academic disciplines.
This blog will serve as a place for myself (and others) to write about the various ways that a cross-centered theology might intersect
with biblical scholarship, politics, ethics, pop culture, and other academic disciplines.
It aims to counter the rise of Christian fundamentalism by means of holding conferences and seminars that will bring church congregations up to date
with biblical scholarship.
Not exact matches
to the new intellectual environment, combined
with the fact that Wesley did seem easily to appropriate the emerging
biblical scholarship of his day, are grounds for suggesting that the Wesleyan tradition is more appropriately viewed as non-fundamentalist, even among those who wish to live in more direct continuity
with the spiritual dynamic of the founder.
Most Sobering: Pete Enns
with «If They Only Knew What I Thought: The Sad Cycle of Evangelical
Biblical Scholarship»
Still, The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus is an excellent guide for the neophyte or advanced student who wonders how one might reconcile modern
biblical scholarship with the claims of faith.
With all the decades of scientific research and
biblical scholarship that have intervened since the Scopes «monkey trial» in 1925, one might have thought that the issues were by now passé.
Call it what you want, it is just more media hype to promote a new, imminently forthcoming book
with shoddy
Biblical and archaeological
scholarship or historical accuracy.
Armed
with the fruits of a century of developing
biblical scholarship and tools, Segundo expects — and finds — that the historical Jesus undercuts many long - held understandings of Christ.
I do the best dog - and - pony show I know how to do, not only to make that point of view as clear as I can but exciting
with vignettes from the history of
biblical scholarship, the conflicts, and so forth.
There are many reasons why the use of psychological models in
biblical scholarship has met
with resistance in some quarters.
Those acts and sayings
with single or later att - estations along
with the current
biblical scholarship negativity, were judged not to be done or said by the historical Jesus.
Hermann Gunkel, in a sense the unique father of us all in modern
biblical scholarship, despite his insistence on saga's supervision of the Elijah narratives as we receive them, nevertheless affirms on the one hand Elijah's kinship
with the greatest of all ministers of ancient Israel, Moses, in their mutual contention
with their own people; and, on the other hand, Elijah's legitimate and immediate relationship to the great prophets who follow him and who, essentially, continue the work he began.
With all the decades of scientific research and
biblical scholarship that have intervened since the Scopes...
In the second section, «New Testament Evidence,» Lombardo engages
with critical
biblical scholarship in an effort to establish basic positive criteria that must be present in any valid understanding of the cross.
so - called «critical»
scholarship — especially the
biblical variety,
with its ideological stridencies — I am, more.
Usually Jenny Lawson breaks the ice
with a bizarre, profanity - laced story about a mummified bat (or peasant or ferret); then Scot McKnight jumps in
with his thoughts on the latest
biblical scholarship, followed by an update from NPR on today's news.
Published originally
with the title From Reimarus to Wrede, it could hardly have been expected to leave such an impact, for it is mainly a survey of
biblical scholarship in regard to Jesus between the writings of Reimarus in 1778 and Wrede in 1901.
The Genesis of Perfection is a striking achievement, a model of
biblical scholarship that combines intellectual adventure
with a loving fidelity to tradition, and effectively conveys to the reader a full measure of the pleasure that the author obviously had in writing it.
While there are excellent and well - stated «conservative positions»
with regard to certain
biblical issues, there is, no such thing as an «evangelical body of
scholarship» which constitutes anything like a rival «school» to mainstream
scholarship.
To me, for example, one of the most exciting recent developments in Spinoza
scholarship is Carlos Fraenkel's argument that Spinoza could have adopted a more conciliatory approach to
biblical interpretation, one that would reinterpret the Bible in accordance
with his teachings, thus mitigating their heretical tone.
When a man
with no
biblical training whatsoever is considered more qualified to teach than a woman
with a PhD in theology or a woman whose work in New Testament
scholarship is renowned the world over, we are not seeing complementariaism at work, but patriarchy.
The modern genre of historical - critical commentary has become ossified, and the vast majority read like summaries of recent
scholarship rather than fresh engagements
with the
biblical text.
The Navarre Bible, that wonderful commentary which has done so much to seed the wasteland of contemporary
Biblical scholarship, refers in connection
with the passage I quoted from Matthew (9:36) to words of St Margaret Mary Alacoque: «This Divine Heart is a great abyss which holds all good, and he commands that all his poor people should pour their needs into it.
This perspective had been sharpened by a year's study at Berlin, but it is striking that his interests at that time were such that he did not attend any lectures in theology, even those of Harnack.5 Although he developed great appreciation for Harnack in later years, he worked out his own approach to
Biblical scholarship by applying to the scriptures methods developed
with other subject matters in view.
This means that the recorded words and deeds of Jesus must be taken seriously,
with the best
biblical scholarship available for their understanding but without dismissal or disparagement.
Biblical Scholarship is much worse off
with his passing.
In this respect, his approach is very different from that of another distinguished literary critic, Robert Alter, author of The Art of
Biblical Narrative, who deprecates what he calls the excavative techniques of professional biblical scholarship and works with the text as it is, in its fin
Biblical Narrative, who deprecates what he calls the excavative techniques of professional
biblical scholarship and works with the text as it is, in its fin
biblical scholarship and works
with the text as it is, in its final form.
I believe he would have accepted the shift of
biblical scholarship with respect to Jesus» teaching.
It is this theory which,
with some modifications, is generally held by modern
Biblical scholarship today.
The purpose of this blog is to explore the Scriptures
with reference to both
biblical scholarship and theological reflection.
The purpose of this blog is to explore the Scriptures
with reference to both
biblical scholarship and theological reflection.
The purpose of this blog is to explore the Scriptures
with reference to both
biblical scholarship and theological reflection.