Credits: Dave Coverly, Speed Bump, 09/18/2006
Credits: Wiley Miller, Non Sequitur, 9/19/06(click image to enlarge)
Entries from September 2006
September 23, 2006
Leave no thought unpublished
I am currently reading Markus Bockmuehl’s Seeing the Word: Refocusing New Testament Study for Marianne Meye Thomson’s course on New Testament Research Methods. It is both insightful and witty. One of his points especially stood out for me while I was reading today, particularly considering a previous post of mine. Bockmuehl is addressing the fragmentation [...]
September 23, 2006
The "least" bit of tension in Matthew 25
I recently finished a paper on the Jewish background of the six acts of charity in Matthew 25:31-46. While I was researching for the paper, I came across the best concrete example of well-handled tension between exegesis and Anabaptist theology that I have seen thus far. For those who don’t know, the Believers Church Bible [...]
September 13, 2006
In over my head?
This fall, I’m stepping up the academic challenge. Marianne Meye Thompson has allowed me into her doctoral level course, New Testament Research Methods. Typically, doctoral courses have a small opening for the few, the chosen, the blessed… the lowly master’s-level students. The doctoral students usually have at least twice as much work to do and [...]
September 11, 2006
The Philosophical Showdown a la Non Sequitur
Credits: Wiley Miller, Non Sequitur, 9/11/06(click image to enlarge)
September 10, 2006
Mount Washington and the GRE
I am nearing the end of this long summer academic journey. I have never had to think so much over one summer. Christina (my wife) and I are finally taking a nice vacation on the East Coast, visiting my mom and then her parents. My mom and her friend Ellen have this great place up [...]
September 9, 2006
Inerrancy is the slippery slope…
Daniel B. Wallace on inerrancy:
What I tell my students every year is that it is imperative that they pursue truth rather than protect their presuppositions. And they need to have a doctrinal taxonomy that distinguishes core beliefs from peripheral beliefs. When they place more peripheral doctrines such as inerrancy and verbal inspiration at the core, [...]
