Showing posts with label Theological Quandaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theological Quandaries. Show all posts
Friday, 5 November 2010

Barth, Ps 24, and the unity of the Testaments

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Christians believe that the Old Testament witnesses to  God-in-Jesus. Jesus himself made this clear to his disciples as he walked with them ...
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Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Theological parallels between Israel's wisdom traditions and salvation-historical traditions

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It's often said that Israel's wisdom traditions are devoid of the kind of theology one finds elsewhere in the Old Testament. Bruegge...
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Saturday, 9 October 2010

"Ontological thirst": my new favourite phrase

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While perusing the fascinating collection of essays contained i n Resurrection: Theological and Scientific Assessments , I came across what ...
Friday, 8 October 2010

Is "canonical exegesis" too difficult?

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Christopher Hays, in a review of Childs' The Struggle to Understand Isaiah as Christian Scripture , has the following to say about the d...
Saturday, 2 October 2010

A further (Jewish) critical thought on the Oxford Psalms Conference

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In my last post I shared some c ritical thoughts about the recent Oxford Psalms conference . Given that I'm a Christian and one of my is...
Monday, 27 September 2010

Critical thoughts on the Oxford Psalms Conference

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I've just returned from the Oxford Psalms conference , of which Bob MacDonald has provided an overview in a series of posts (along wit...
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010

Why was the early church persecuted?

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I'm off to Holland for a few days. Before I drive off, here's an interesting excerpt from N.T. Wright's The New Testament and th...
Saturday, 26 June 2010

Historical criticism and theological reality: a case study

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In light of the recent debates on the relation of faith and critical Biblical scholarship (see espeically the long dialogues on John Hobbins...
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Friday, 25 June 2010

Theology, science, and Hendel

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A lengthy discussion has ensued from my post responding to Hendel's recent critique of SBL . To put it starkly: I'm claiming that He...
Thursday, 3 June 2010

Doing exegetical justice to Israel's view of history

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Brevard Childs claims that the Biblical view of history is constituted by a dialectical tension between empirical history and God's uni...
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Childs on the "dialectical" nature of the Biblical view of history

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In his overview of the Christian exegetical tradition , Brevard Childs notes that an intense interest in the nature of history has been an e...
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Monday, 15 March 2010

Beauty and the Piss Christ.

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A friend of mine here in Bonn organized an informal salon last weekend on the topic of "beauty." Various people get together and ...
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Friday, 19 February 2010

The religious significance of ethnic Israel and the canonical shape of Esther

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In response to my recent post on Biblical scholarship and the State of Israel , a friend has highlighted the complexity involved in claiming...
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