tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6547653347296107692.post1227547383918222495..comments2024-01-09T12:59:32.666+01:00Comments on Narrative and Ontology: Introducing Brevard S. Childs ...Phil Sumpterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491514886782881340noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6547653347296107692.post-17156394507311114812010-12-31T20:03:26.748+01:002010-12-31T20:03:26.748+01:00I think you may find the downloadable lectures by ...I think you may find the downloadable lectures by Skip Moen very interesting. I think you would find them intellectually stimulating, they can be found at: http://skipmoen.com/2010/12/30/comments-of-brevard-childs/Been therehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05736387609592146585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6547653347296107692.post-33758470604716149732007-09-17T19:19:00.000+02:002007-09-17T19:19:00.000+02:00Stefan,I'm glad to find a co-fan! I would love to ...Stefan,<BR/><BR/>I'm glad to find a co-fan! I would love to know how that helped bring you to Orthodoxy (with a capital 'O'), though no doubt there were a whole host of factors and it's a long story ... I'd love to hear your point of view as the discussion unravels!<BR/><BR/>Daniel, <BR/><BR/>names are important (you're an OT scholar, you know that!), so I've made the requisite amendments to my blog list.<BR/><BR/>Mike, <BR/><BR/>thanks for the tip. By 'correspondence theory of truth' I meant the idea that the Bible's historical statements, for example, must always literally correspond to the ways things were in reality, otherwise the Bible isn't true. I didn't mean the more philosophical notion that truth statements in general are only true if they correspond to facts (though the two ideas seem related ...). I think in this sense Henry's signing of the <EM>Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy</EM> means that he is committed to a literal interpreation of biblical texts that purport to make 'ostensive reference' to historical facts, i.e. Isaiah wrote the book of Isaiah; Jonah went into the alimentary canal of a great fish; hills of foreskins could be excavated and shown to line up with accounts about them; the sea parted and dry ground existed on the terms given by the words used to say this; the letters attributed to Paul were all written personally by him in the same basic way letters are written today (to use some of Seitz's examples).Phil Sumpterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16491514886782881340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6547653347296107692.post-44622895055837013142007-09-17T17:15:00.000+02:002007-09-17T17:15:00.000+02:00Conservatives shouldn't be bothered by Child's rej...Conservatives shouldn't be bothered by Child's rejection of correspondence theory. That's just silly.<BR/><BR/>Carl Henry rejected it. He's as conservative as they come (well, kind of).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6547653347296107692.post-42182766053041860412007-09-17T16:56:00.000+02:002007-09-17T16:56:00.000+02:00Not that it matters, but my blog, which used to be...Not that it matters, but my blog, which used to be called Figured Out, has been renamed to "Occasional Publications." Just FYI. I do still like the old name, but it wasn't quite appropriate anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6547653347296107692.post-36799090115387287032007-09-16T01:35:00.000+02:002007-09-16T01:35:00.000+02:00I was unaware that the esteemed Dr. Childs had dep...I was unaware that the esteemed Dr. Childs had departed this life. Memory eternal!<BR/><BR/>I do owe him much: I was just finishing his commentary on <I>Exodus</I> when the one on <I>Isaiah</I> came out, and so I read them back to back; and a couple months before starting on <I>Exodus</I>, I had read his <I>Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments</I>, which left me hungry for more. I was just then on the brink of becoming Eastern Orthodox, and his works surely influenced me in that direction. As you quite rightly suggested regarding Kevin Edgecomb's typically brilliant comments in John Hobbins' blog, the Eastern Orthodox attitude towards the Scriptures and their interpretation is profoundly relevant to Childs' program--and I believe that the reverse is also true. This is something that I'm certainly hoping to explore in my graduate work, but it is as yet unclear to me where could such a project be undertaken.<BR/><BR/>And of course, thanks for the link to Daniel Driver's research site! What a wonderful resource; I'm certain that I will refer to it constantly.Esteban Vázquezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09738869673774603152noreply@blogger.com