Recommended Books (Winter 2024)
We hope you had a wonderful Christmas holiday with family nearby and gifts exchanged liberally. Many of us had wish lists filled with books, ready now to dive into a few good reads for the upcoming year. If you have not already set yourself up with something new to read, here are a few books we found particularly interesting over the past few months. Below, you will find reading suggestions from our group that come from a wide range...
Book Review: Old Testament Exegesis
Douglas Stuart, Old Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009). Within the Christian academic community, there are many resources for the aspiring Bible student. A cursory glance at the resource section of a Christian bookstore will show myriad concordances, Bible handbooks, commentaries, Bible translations, and more. Even with these resources, bridging Bible reading and...
Why We Don’t Read the Bible
You wake up ten minutes later than you had hoped and it starts: “What if I’m late? What about traffic? What time are my meetings today?” You finally make it to work, but your mind is elsewhere. You remember the family member who is struggling. Or you remember the difficult problem your kid is facing at school. You make it home, and, as you turn on the evening news, you start to worry about the economy and world events. You turn the...
Science and Hermeneutics: Reading Scripture with Isaac Newton
Christians, especially in the Reformed tradition, have often been cautious toward and even suspicious of natural theology. This approach to theology derives knowledge about God not primarily from revelation, but reasoned reflection on nature [1]. Many theologians hasten to highlight the limits of where reasoning from nature can take us with respect to knowing God. Many Christians after Darwin, Freud, and Einstein have felt deep...
Ancient Mythology, Creation, and Hermeneutics
by Matthew McAffee What is ancient mythology, and why does it matter for biblical interpretation? This question has become an increasingly difficult one for evangelicalism in its attempts at interpreting the narratives of Genesis 1-11. Many within the academy have largely abandoned the notion that the Biblical materials reflect actual historical events. Instead, they argue that these texts represent an Israelite version of the ancient...
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