A couple of weeks ago I disagreed with Michael Halcomb about dismissing the early extra-canonical tradition that Jesus was born in a cave. (His response is here, and my further one here.) I still wish to take the cave tradition seriously as possible historical evidence. I was therefore intrigued to come across (HT Jim West) [...]
The unfamiliarity of the NRSV’s rendition of 2 Timothy 3 caught me off balance in thinking about today’s lectionary readings.
All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work. (2 [...]
Michael Bird offers a response to a recent article by David Parker on textual criticism and theology (Expository Times (118.12 [Sept 2007], pp. 583-89 – I provide the link for those who have online subscription access). . There are four major points in the essay which also offer the four areas for Michael Bird’s interaction.
The [...]
Okay, maybe the title of the post is a slight wind-up. But having come clean on that, I do have a serious point to make. The dominant picture of Paul, particularly among the Churches of the Reformation, is derived from Galatians:
For I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel that was proclaimed [...]
John Hobbins has puzzled me. (Perhaps it’s only because I’m aware that I shall shortly come to the article on predestination in my series that I noticed this.) But he professes to be a TULIP, which for those of you who need reminding – and half the time I do – stands for:
Total depravity
Unconditional [...]
Josh McManaway has been thinking about the church, having become convinced of the importance of reading the New Testament in the light of the Fathers. I think he overstates his case, but one very important point he makes is this:
I think what happens when we exclude Patristics from our study of the Church is we [...]
John Hobbins has an excellent post on the voices that mediate scripture to us, from the voice of the author, through the parental story-teller, to the synagogue cantor. So often, the meaning of scripture for us is the one we were first told, whether by the echoes of the childhood story, the way it was [...]
