August 15, 2016 Here are some thoughts about biblical interpretation as I try to get clear about the reader’s role in the phenomenon of meaning. The chapter that I am currently working on is about the way in which we create meaning as we read the Bible. This is because the Bible (like any text) … More The Reader’s Culture (part 2)
How does God’s word relate to human words? How does God speak in the Bible? I am currently teaching two sections of a freshman course, New Testament History and Religion. On Wednesday we covered the portions of Luke’s gospel that deal with wealth and contrasted them with what 1 Timothy 6 says about wealth. Luke’s … More The Incarnational Paradox of the Bible
To be human is to receive the divine command or question and to respond. … More The Unsettling Encounter with the Word of God
Last week I raised the question of progressive revelation within the Bible. I noted that Christians generally acknowledge that the New Testament reveals God in a fuller way than does the Old Testament. (This statement obviously requires qualification. Martin Luther, for instance, believed that parts of the OT reveal Christ while parts of the NT … More Veiling women and the word of God
In my last two or three journal posts, I wrote about biblical narratives that seem to be about one thing but are in fact about something else–narratives in which the meaning that lies on the surface of the texts differs from the original purpose of the text. The genocide passages in Joshua, for instance, seem … More Psalm 137 and Infanticide
The Word of God is spirit-ual; filled with the Spirit of God … More The Word of God and Spirit
the word of God is another name for God’s acting. . . . It is the expression and means of God’s creative power … More Revelation, Information, and Action
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