Book Review: Resounding Truth
by M. Grady Calhoun Music is everywhere. It has infiltrated almost every culture, especially modern Western culture, from all sides. One scarcely enters a coffee shop, mall, airport, or arena where music isn’t belted from a sound system. Music is present to help manage our moods for whatever everyday task with which we find ourselves engaged. It so surrounds us that we often forget its presence. This may leave us wondering: “How is...
Reflections on Inspiration and Interpretation: The Implications of Inspiration for Interpretation (Part Two)
by Matthew McAffee In Part One of this essay, we introduced the nature of Scripture as dually-authored. In this essay, we will explore this further, commenting on how it is both divinely given and humanly written. We will also identify more specific ways in which our view of inspiration informs our attention to interpretation. The Significance of Scripture as Dually-Authored for Interpretation How does the nature of Scripture relate...
Reflections on Inspiration and Interpretation: The Nature of Inspiration (Part One)
by Matthew McAffee In the following two-part essay, I would like to entertain the connection between one’s view of biblical inspiration on the one hand, and one’s approach to biblical interpretation on the other. In Part One we will provide a brief assessment of what God has revealed to us in Scripture about the nature of these writings. In Part Two, we will explore a few of the implications that arise from biblical inspiration that...
The Satisfaction of Sonship
by Frank Owens Two scenes. Two sons. Scene #1: One of the coldest winters in thirty years had sequestered the two of us in a Louisville apartment. Jesse was taking his first class in a new degree at Southern Seminary. We were also trying to turn student housing into a home for he and Tiffany. Every brush stroke and turn of the roller was a labor of love. I was a father satisfied with a son. Scene #2: We raised our voices with hundreds...
Holy War in the Bible: Book Review
by Seth Miller A new Bible student will surely be alarmed when they discover Scripture in which God commands the Israelites to “devote” enemy nations to “complete destruction.” “You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them,” states Deut. 7:2. New Christians can have great difficulty reconciling such passages with the meek and mild Jesus Who stated “whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for...
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