Joel and The Revelation: Sounding the Trumpet
I have been teaching The Minor Prophets this semester and as we covered Joel I was struck by the use of Joel which…
Category: Interpretation
The Future of Biblical Interpretation: A Book Review
Thanks to IVP Academic for providing a review copy of Porter, Stanley E. and Matthew R. Malcolm, eds., The Future of Biblical Interpretation:…
Daniel Block on Inductive Study
Daniel Block offers some basic (but essential) advice to students of Scripture to study the text as primary, rather than turning to other…
How NOT to Interpret the OT Law
The Resurgence has posted The Beginner’s Guide to Interpreting Old Testament Law and offered the commonly received Reformed categorization of the Torah as…
Playing with Gadamer
“What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what…
Literature for Ethics and Theology
“Literature is important for ethics because literature is as complicated as life itself, and cannot be decoded or boiled down. Ethical insight comes…
Hungry with Questions
Yesterday I preached from Matthew 15:29-39 about the feeding of the 4,000 (men, less women and children and not to be confused with…
Forever Listening to the Spirit
I recently read something by Lesslie Newbigin (that great missionary statesman of the twentieth century) that struck a chord with me. He wrote…