Faithful readers may remember my short-lived Bible commentating plan from earlier in the year. Here and here I began my project of reading through Scripture in search of “Obligation.” That project petered out due to the time-demands of the semester and—probably—methodological confusion with regard to what constituted an obligation. As the new year approaches, and [...]
Tags: cross, death and resurrection, glory of god, hypothesis, interpretation, Jesus, Obligation, old testament, redemption, resurrection of jesus, revelation, self sacrifice, topical study
This post is part of a series. Read the introduction here. Keep in mind the speculative and exploratory nature of these comments.
“… in the biblical description of creation, the vocation of God becomes definitive of the vocation of human life and of that of institutions and nations and other creatures and of all things whatever.” [...]
Tags: conscience, contexts, creation accounts, doctrine of god, figure of speech, genesis account, legal context, obedience, Obligation, sovereignty, theologians, theological reflection, william stringfellow
Theology is a kind of theorizing.
Many people don’t realize this. For some, a document like the Westminster Confession of Faith would be demeaned if it were called a collection of theories. To be theoretical is to be ephemeral, debatable, even disprovable. But confessions are theoretical—ephemeral, debatable, disprovable—even much more generally accepted confessions, such as the [...]
Tags: apostles creed, Ben Myers, Bible, Christ's body, eyes of faith, nature of theology, reading scripture, scientific theory, Scripture, theoretical nature, theories, Vollenhoven, westminster confession of faith, word of god and the word of man
A good friend of mine, Jamin Hubner, has inspired me to incorporate a new way of reading Scripture into my devotions. Typically in the past my chief constraining intentions when reading the Bible have been covering a certain portion of it within a certain time, or else opening myself up to meditate upon a it [...]
Tags: biblical philosophy, coherent theory, devotions, hubner, logical conclusions, Obligation, prophetic witness, reading scripture
