Daniel Kirk, Jesus, and Paul
… the Christian life is the kind of thing that makes the kings of the earth nervous — not because it encounters them with the force of arms, but because it testifies to a power that not even death can...
View ArticleToo Much Life
Daniel honoured my ponderings about the prominence of ‘the cross’ in his fourth chapter by blogging further about the problem of cruciformity in Pauline ethics and ours. I have a few brief comments...
View ArticleThat Exhilarating Feeling
I’ve said a number of times that intellectual life affords very few thrills that equal the feeling that a claim you’re inclined to doubt, one that contradicts what you’re pretty sure to be right — when...
View ArticleUnderstanding Aberrant Interpretation
My work in hermeneutics has always sought out explanations for interpretive divergence — in the first instance, for proximate disagreements among well-qualified readers who generally share their...
View ArticleOK, How Do You Do Exegesis?
After having written about what makes exegesis difficult (and subsequent posts), and after having written about criticism and evidence, I’ll get to the point and suggest how you actually set about...
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What Is Exegetical Method?
[As part of writing out a book on exegetical method — the approaches, the how-to parts, the consequences parts, and so on — I’m beginning with some introductory writing on the subject. This will...
View ArticleWhy Exegesis?
It’s a blog, not a through-composed book or essay, so I can jump from topic to topic if I want to! What is our investment in identifying our work as “exegesis” rather than less exotic words such as...
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