Biblical-Theology on J. David Stark

Why Authentic Doctrines Aren't Freestanding

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Doctrine needs to respond to a question that arises and demands an answer. If it’s a freestanding assertion, it loses connection with its life context.

Daily Gleanings: Scripture (30 October 2019)

Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Daily Gleanings from Joe Gordon based on his book “Divine Scripture in Human Understanding.”

Daily Gleanings: Resurrection (13 September 2019)

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:00:18 +0000

Daily Gleanings about Brandon Crowe’s forthcoming “Hope of Israel: The Resurrection of Christ in the Acts of the Apostles.”

Daily Gleanings: Free Books (12 August 2019)

Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:00:14 +0000

Daily Gleanings about free books for August 2019 from Logos and Verbum.

Daily Gleanings: Recent Publications (18 July 2019)

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:00:50 +0000

Daily Gleanings about biblical theology from Eckhard Schnabel and Craig Keener’s commentary on Galatians from Larry Hurtado.

Daily Gleanings: New Titles from SBL Press (9 July 2019)

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:00:16 +0000

Daily Gleanings about new releases from SBL Press on the theology and intertextuality of the Hebrew Bible.

Daily Gleanings: RBL (3 July 2019)

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:00:56 +0000

Daily Gleanings from RBL on Fiona Gregson’s, “Everything in Common?” and Jason Maston and Benjamin Reynolds’s, “Anthropology and New Testament Theology.”

Daily Gleanings (27 May 2019)

Mon, 27 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Daily Gleanings on “Paul, a New Covenant Jew” and from J. T. Ellison on productivity as a writer.

Daily Gleanings (8 April 2019)

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 16:53:23 +0000

Gleanings about essentialism and Charles Quarles's Matthean theology.

Walton, "Old Testament Theology for Christians"

Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:00:40 +0000

Due out with InterVarsity Press is John Walton’s “Old Testament Theology for Christians: From Ancient Context to Enduring Belief.”

Levy, “Medieval Biblical Interpretation”

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Due out from Baker Academic in February 2018 is Ian Levy’s “Introducing Medieval Biblical Interpretation: The Senses of Scripture in Premodern Exegesis.”

Moberly, “The Bible in a Disenchanted Age”

Wed, 06 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Due out from Baker Academic in January 2018 is R. W. L. Moberly’s “The Bible in a Disenchanted Age: The Enduring Possibility of Christian Faith.”

"Explorations in interdisciplinary reading" is out

Thu, 03 Aug 2017 13:00:38 +0000

Recently released under Wipf and Stock’s Pickwick imprint is Explorations in Interdisciplinary Reading: Theological, Exegetical, and Reception-historical Perspectives, edited by Robbie Castleman, Darian Lockett, and Stephen Presley. The volume includes essays assembled from the Institute for Biblical Research’s recently concluded study group on Biblical Theology, Hermeneutics, and Theological Disciplines. A key among the essays in the volume is the interplay between Scripture as situated in its own historical contexts and its continuing reception as a canonical whole.

Biblical references in writing theology

Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:00:54 +0000

Earlier this month, Rick Brannan posted an analysis of the most frequently cited in a selection of systematic theologies. Rick has since made available on his blog the bibliography of systematic theologies that fed this analysis.

Meanwhile, Christianity Today picked up the post for further discussion. According to CT,

Biblical references in systematic theologies

Sat, 10 Jun 2017 06:43:14 +0000

At theLAB, Rick Brannan has an interesting post about the most frequently cited verses in a selection of systematic theologies. Especially by comparison with the size of the two testaments, New Testament references vastly outnumber Old Testament references (90% to 10% in the top 100 most frequently cited texts). As a supplement to the analysis, it might also be interesting to see a bibliography of the exact systematic theologies involved in the accounting would be interesting, as well as whether there would be some way of calculating whether the sample size is large enough to be statistically significant (e.g., within the publication date ranges represented).

Bates at theLAB, part 2

Wed, 31 May 2017 13:00:24 +0000

Over at the Logos Academic Blog, Tavis Bohlinger now has up the second part of his interview with Matthew Bates about his Salvation by Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the King (Baker, 2017). This interview portion focuses much more on Bates’s particular proposal in the volume.

Castleman, Lockett, and Presley, eds., "Explorations in interdisciplinary reading"

Wed, 05 Apr 2017 13:00:47 +0000

Explorations in Interdisciplinary Reading: Theological, Exegetical, and Reception-historical Perspectives, edited by Robbie Castleman, Darian Lockett, and Stephen Presley, appeared under Wipf and Stock’s Pickwick in 2017.

The volume includes essays assembled through the Institute for Biblical Research’s recently concluded study group on Biblical Theology, Hermeneutics, and Theological Disciplines.

St. George's Centre seminars for 2017

Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:00:43 +0000

Annually, the St. George’s Centre for Biblical and Public Theology sponsors three seminars at SBL: Scripture and Church, Scripture and Doctrine, and Scripture and Hermeneutics (in partnership with the Institute for Biblical Research). Registration is now open for these seminars’ 2017 meetings in Boston, as well as for the accompanying dinner. The lectures and discussion are always quite stimulating.

Wright, "Following Jesus" for free

Fri, 03 Feb 2017 14:00:11 +0000

This month, Logos Bible Software’s free book is N. T. Wright’s Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Christian Discipleship (SPCK, 1994). The book falls into two parts:

Part one outlines the essential messages of six major New Testament books—Hebrews, Colossians, Matthew, John, Mark, and Revelation. Part two examines six key New Testament themes—resurrection, rebirth, temptation, hell, heaven, and new life—and considers their significance for the lives of present-day disciples.

Advent 17 @Logos

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:35:29 +0000

Today’s Advent givaway by Logos Bible Software is Geerhardus Vos’s Idea of Biblical Theology as a Science and as a Theological Discipline.

Ammon, Biblische Theologie

Tue, 20 May 2014 14:51:27 +0000

Google Books has two volumes of Christoph Friedrich Ammon’s Biblische Theologie (Erlangen: J. J. Palm, 1801) available in various full-text formats ( vol. 1, vol. 2).

Edmund Clowney @WTSBooks

Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:18:54 +0000

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Through September 3, the Westminster Bookstore has select Ed Clowney resources available at half-off, including:

As usual, the Bookstore has also included some related, free PDF or multimedia material on these books’ product pages.

Schreiner, The King in His Beauty

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:00:49 +0000

Baker and the Stone-Campbell Journal were kind enough to provide a copy of Tom Schreiner’s The King in His Beauty: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments. According to the publisher’s description, Schreiner:

Vos's Reformed Dogmatics in English

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:03:51 +0000

Logos Bible Software is currently preparing the first English translation of Geerhardus Vos’s Reformed Dogmatics. By way of background regarding Vos:

[T]he “father of Reformed biblical theology,” was born 151 years ago this month. Vos, a professor of biblical theology at Princeton, lectured alongside many famous theologians, including J. Gresham Machen, B. B. Warfield, and Abraham Kuyper. So great was Vos’ academic insight that Kuyper offered him the chair of Old Testament studies at the Free University of Amsterdam when Vos was just 24.

Morgan and Peterson, The Kingdom of God

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:32:23 +0000

Christopher Morgan and Robert Peterson, eds.

Crossway has recently released The Kingdom of God, co-edited by Christopher Morgan of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, and Robert Peterson, of Covenant Theological Seminary. According to Crossway’s description:

The kingdom of God is a very large biblical category indeed. Accordingly, a comprehensive understanding of the kingdom would illuminate many aspects of theology. With this in mind, Bruce Waltke, Robert Yarbrough, Gerald Bray, Clinton Arnold, Gregg Allison, Stephen Nichols, and Anthony Bradley have collaborated to articulate a full view of the kingdom of God across multiple disciplines. One of the most important books on the kingdom since G. E. Ladd, this volume offers a robust theology and is corroborated by the very series in which it stands. Fourth in the noted Theology in Community series, The Kingdom of God establishes the significance of the kingdom from the perspectives of biblical theology, systematic theology, history, pastoral application, missiology, and cultural analysis.

In the Mail: Driver, Brevard Childs

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:27:35 +0000

Daniel Driver

In yesterday’s mail arrived Daniel Driver’s Brevard Childs, Biblical Theologian: For the Church’s One Bible (Baker). The volume is a corrected, North American edition of Driver’s previous volume under the same title from Mohr Siebeck (2010; ix), which was itself a “thorough revision and updating” of Driver’s PhD thesis ( Brevard Childs: The Logic of Scripture’s Textual Authority in the Mystery of Christ, St. Andrews, 2008; xi). This North American edition was just released in August, and Baker’s description of it is as follows:

Goldsworthy, Christ-Centered Biblical Theology

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:51:02 +0000

Graeme Goldsworthy

New out earlier this year was Graeme Goldsworthy’s Christ-Centered Biblical Theology: Hermeneutical Foundations and Principles (InterVarsity). On the volume’s product page, the folks at the Westminster Bookstore have made available a PDF containing the volume’s first chapter, “Biblical Theology: Lame Duck or Eagles’ Wings?” (19–37).

Biblical-theological Preaching at the Westminster Bookstore

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:48:45 +0000

In acknowledgement of Westminster Seminary’s Preaching Conference later this month, the Westminster Bookstore is running a half (or more)-off special on Edmund Clowney’s Preaching and Biblical Theology, Graeme Goldsworthy’s Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture, as well as a number of other resources.

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (October 5, 2012)

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:41:37 +0000

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Reinhard G. Kratz and Hermann Spieckermann, eds., One God-One Cult-One Nation: Archaeological and Biblical Perspectives, reviewed by Aren Maeir
Matthew Morgenstern, Studies in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Based upon Early Eastern Manuscripts, reviewed by Aaron Koller
T. Muraoka, A Grammar of Qumran Aramaic, reviewed by Adam McCollum
Bezalel Porten, The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change, reviewed by Jeremy Hutton and by Jerome A. Lund
Seth D. Postell, Adam as Israel: Genesis 1–3 as the Introduction to the Torah and Tanakh, reviewed by L. Michael Morales
Gordon J. Wenham, Psalms as Torah: Reading Biblical Song Ethically, reviewed by Joseph R. Kelly

New Testament and Cognate Studies

On the Web (June 25, 2012)

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:03:45 +0000

On the web:

Joseph Kelly discusses biblical theology and history of religion research.
Cary Nelson considers ownership issues for faculty-developed intellectual property.
Rod Decker comments on ζῶ.
Allison Friederichs discusses grade inflation.

Bock, Theology of Luke and Acts

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:07:35 +0000

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In the second volume to be released in Zondervan’s Biblical Theology of the New Testament series, Darrell Bock takes up Luke and Acts. On the text’s product page, the Westminster Bookstore has assembled a 5-part playlist of YouTube interviews from Zondervan about the volume.

Bray's God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:15:58 +0000

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Fresh off the presses at Crossway this past month is Gerald Bray’s God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology. According to the publisher,

While there is no substitute for personal, faithful, and careful Bible reading and prayer, the Bible’s vast size and diversity can make distilling its truth a daunting task. Thus most Christians benefit from supplemental resources to help learn and apply what Scripture teaches. . . .

2012 Faith and the Academy Conference

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:04:17 +0000

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This year’s Faith and the Academy conference program is now available. The conference is hosted annually by Faulkner University. This year’s theme is “Money, Morals, and Missions,” and the plenary sessions will feature Shawn Ritenour of Grove City College and Monty Lynn of Abilene Christian University. In the last morning session, I am also privileged to be giving a paper on “Physical Humanities and Lettered Sciences: Thomas Kuhn’s Significance for Contextualizing Biblical Studies.” For more information about the conference and to register, please see here.

Blog (Revival) Notice: Beginning with Moses

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:28:02 +0000

Beginning with Moses has been substantially refreshed, and the site is scheduled to have regular updates begin again on September 1. If you like, you can also follow Beginning with Moses on Twitter and Facebook.

The Biblical Theology Briefings have carried over from the old site, and the site’s principal editor, Mark Owens, invites fresh contributions for this section.

"But What about Israel?"

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:08:15 +0000

The Evangelical Theological Society’s southeastern, regional meeting begins tomorrow and will feature some interesting-looking papers, a couple of which I have been able to preview as they have come through Southeastern’s Writing Center. Fellow blogger Alan Knox will be presenting on “A Theology of Encouragement in Hebrews,” and my own paper, “But What about Israel?: A Biblical-Theological Approach to the Question of Individual and Corporate Election in Romans 9–11” has also been included in the program. To abstract this paper briefly:

This Year's IBR Giveaway

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:27:02 +0000

At the Friday night meeting of the Institute for Biblical Research, there is traditionally a book giveaway of some kind. At my first IBR last year, attendees received M. Daniel Carroll R.’s Christians at the Border and either Theological Interpretation of the New Testament (ed. Kevin Vanhoozer, Daniel Treier, and N. T. Wright) or Theological Interpretation of the Old Testament (ed. Kevin Vanhoozer, Craig Bartholomew, and Daniel Treier).