MSH | February 15, 2013
The Bible Places Blog (BPB) draws our attention to a new book edited by James K. Hoffmeier and Dennis R. Magary entitled, Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?: A Critical Appraisal of Modern and Postmodern Approaches to Scripture. It looks like a quality resource. It’s focus is on how biblical historicity matters for inspiration and [...]
Category: Bible and Archaeology, Biblical History, Bibliology |
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Tags: archaeology, Bible, historicity, historiography, history, inerrancy, inspiration, Israel, religion
MSH | September 12, 2012
I appreciated this post from James McGrath, whose short essay was stimulated by Robin Parry’s post, to whom James directs his readers. The issue is how “literal creationists” are actually only selective literalists (or, as I would call them, “inconsistent literalists”). If one was truly consistent in interpreting the creation description in Genesis 1 at [...]
Category: Biblical Theology, Bibliology, Genesis, Hebrew Bible |
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Tags: ancient, cosmology, creation, creationists, Genesis, inspiration, literalism, pre-scientific, science
MSH | August 25, 2012
Thanks to all of you (nearly 50) who responded to my survey. It’s still open so that others can chime in. I’ll be using these thoughts as fodder for my trip to Nashville this week, as its goal is to experiment with creating some content / teaching videos for YouTube. (I’m also being interviewed for [...]
Category: Bibliology |
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Tags: bible code, inspiration, Moses, Sinai, Torah
MSH | June 28, 2012
A recent guest post over at the Patheos blog author by Dr. David Lincicum, will likely be of interest to Naked Bible readers: Lament for a Maternal Home (or, Is There No Place for Believing Criticism in Evangelicalism?). I appreciated the essay. Though I don’t know Dr. Lincicum’s work or any of his positions on [...]
Category: Bible Study, Bibliology, Greek NT, Hebrew Bible |
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MSH | June 2, 2012
A few weeks ago I had offered some thoughts on a review of Peter Enns’ recent book, The Evolution of Adam. Readers recall that the purpose there was to object to some poor thinking maligning Enns’ theological thinking. In the course of that short critique, I also put forth some thoughts of my own about [...]
Category: Adam, Biblical Anthropology, Biblical History, Biblical Theology, Bibliology, Genesis, Hebrew Bible, Romans, Romans 5 |
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Tags: Adam, creation, creationism, Enns, evolution, Genesis, historical, homo sapiens, Rana, RTB, Venema, Wood