Category Archives: Bible-Theology

Inerrancy

‘Deductively, we know that Scripture does not teach error; inductively, we learn the form that that inerrancy takes.’ Continue reading

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Review of Biblical Literature: Charlie Trimm, “‘YHWH Fights for Them!’: The Divine Warrior in the Exodus Narrative”

My review of “‘YHWH Fights for Them!’: The Divine Warrior in the Exodus Narrative,” has been recently published in RBL. Continue reading

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The Unique Challenge of Text and Canon for Protestants

Protestants have never insisted that possessing the “original autographs” is necessary to know the Word of God. But we need to have something close to them—as close as the art of textual criticism can get us to original autographs. Continue reading

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Chan on ‘Mother Church’

“We are not saved as individuals first and then incorporated into the church; rather, to be a Christian is to be incorporated into the church by baptism and nourished with the spiritual food of the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.” Continue reading

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Sermon: “The Wrong Kind of Glory”

Paul speaks to the Corinthian church about this impulse to gain the respect and admiration of others, and to have that respect live on beyond our earthly days. He speaks to them harshly but playfully, even sarcastically, because their idea of glory and respect is so skewed away from what it should be. Continue reading

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Sermon: “A Future and a Hope?”

The danger in taking the promises in Jeremiah 29:11 out of context and applying them directly to our lives is that we can so easily replace God’s plans, God’s future, and God’s hope with our plans, our future, and our hope. And yet, when we accept God’s plans for our future, we can see that they are infinitely better than our own plans. Continue reading

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Too Soon? (or, When Is It OK to Comment on Tragedy?)

Both gun rights advocates and gun control advocates use shootings as an opportunity to further their ideas. How soon is too soon for advocacy, and how would we know? Continue reading

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Review of Biblical Literature: Josef Forsling, “Composite Artistry in the Book of Numbers”

My review of Josef Forsling’s Composite Artistry in the Book of Numbers: A Study in Biblical Narrative Conventions, has been recently published in the Review of Biblical Literature. Continue reading

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Walton and Sandy on “Inerrancy”

“Inerrancy is no longer the clear, defining term it once was. Its semantic qualities have made it a strong and useful descriptor, but some have also found it almost infinitely pliable, even though extensive attempts have been made to define it….” Continue reading

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What Can We Learn from Job’s Friends?

How do we understand the speeches of Job’s friends? In isolation, they seem to contain good wisdom theology, but they are juxtaposed with Job’s valid objections for which we also must account… Continue reading

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