No Going Back: Considering the Future of Theological Interpretation
Origen of Alexandria (c.185–c.243 CE) is the most influential allegorical reader of Scripture in the early church tradition. He read the entirety of the Christian...
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Beyond Authorial Intention: What Does a Text “Really” Mean?
This post explores how the philosopher Paul Ricoeur influenced the way we think of interpretation. What follows is a purely philosophical journey: I do not draw any...
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Historical ≠ Necessarily Secular
In his book The Historical David: The Real Life of an Invented Hero, Joel Baden (Associate Professor of the OT at Yale Divinity) seeks to identify the real David...
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Biblical Authority and the Primacy of Love
Last week Barney succinctly presented his case that biblical authority is grounded in the early Church’s experience of God; these experiences were recorded in the Bible...
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What does it mean to consider the birds?
Several people have said to me that in my last post I did nothing but raise questions without offering answers. I had written that we need to think about why we trust...
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