Showing posts with label Authority of Scripture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Authority of Scripture. Show all posts
Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Pelikan on tradition and history

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Josh Lim of Reformed Blogging has a knack for posting great quotes by great theologians. To save me having to constantly steal his material...
Monday, 15 June 2009

The final form of Scripture and the issue of readership

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... the concept of final form is closely connected with the issue of readership. An important corollary to the designation of a written corp...
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Thursday, 29 January 2009

Seitz on the divine authorship of Scripture

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This is the first installment of my analysis of the presuppositions undergirding Seitz's book, Prophecy and Hermeneutics . For the intro...
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Monday, 19 January 2009

Barr on Scriptural Authority

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Anyone vaguely familar with this blog will know that I am a great fan of Brevard Childs. Childs' greatest critic was James Barr, another...
Sunday, 20 July 2008

The rule-of-faith as the reality behind doctrine, tradition, and scripture

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I now come to the fourth of the implications Hägglund draws of the patristic understanding of the regula fidei for contemporary dogmatics. ...

Thread Summary: The authority of Scripture

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The following is a summary of my posts dealing with the first of Childs' so-called "constitutive features of Christian exegesis...
Monday, 25 February 2008

Diem on Scripture, Doctrine and the Apostolic Tradition

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I'm currently reading Hermann Diem's Dogmatics , which is providing me with essential background material for understanding Childs. ...
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008

Clarifying the Bible's "Subject Matter"

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A certain Paul wrote an interesting response to my post yesterday on The Nature of the "Substance" of the Bible . I've decided...
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Saturday, 16 February 2008

The Difference Between "Scripture" and "Canon"

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In discussions of the canonical approach, a failure to distinguish between the categories "scripture" and "canon" can le...
Thursday, 14 February 2008

Exegetical Obligations of the Redeemed

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The theological reality of the relationship between God and his people and the unique role of Scripture in this relationship has left a mate...
Monday, 11 February 2008

Israel's Memory and the Rule of Faith

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After a massive hiatus, I return to my ongoing discussion of Childs' canonical approach and it's implications for theological interp...
Wednesday, 2 January 2008

The Final Form of the Text

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This post represents the last section from Childs extremely important essay, "Retrospective Reading of Old Testament Prophets" (19...
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Saturday, 22 December 2007

The Text as Tradent of Authority

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For an overview of posts in this thread, go here . "Prophetic authority is related to the function of the biblical text. The text is th...
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Thursday, 20 December 2007

God Hates Fags?

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I was genuinely blown away when I accidentally came across the website of Westboro Baptist Church the other day. It really is amazing, it de...
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007

On the Extension of Prophetic Tradition

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Having summarised the midrashic theories of prophetic extension as well as Zimmerli's influential theory of Fortschreibung (see my po...
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Wednesday, 5 December 2007

God, Moses and Scripture

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In a recent comment , the following statement was made: "... the Bible is not itself envisioned as an act of God, and the fact that the...
Wednesday, 28 November 2007

The Hermeneutical Implications of the Canonical Shaping of the Pentateuch

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To round off his presentation of the canonical shaping of the Pentateuch, Childs briefly sketches a few of the hermeneutical implications of...
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Wednesday, 21 November 2007

Description of the Canonical Shaping of the Pentateuch

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According to Jewish tradition, the five books of the Pentateuch constitute a unity, designated as the "Torah", the "Torah of ...
Monday, 19 November 2007

Historical Criticism and the Reading of Scripture

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In my post The Writing of Scripture I outlined the diachronic dimension the text as consisting of a 'canonical process', a theologi...
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Saturday, 17 November 2007

The Writing of Scripture

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After a rather long excursus dealing with C. Seitz's article "In Accordance with Scripture" (the last of which, see here ), I ...