One of the new intersections I try to make in the 2nd edition of The Fall of Interpretation is to frame my argument–in two new chapters–in relation to the renaissance of “the theological interpretation of Scripture” we’ve seen over the past decade. (This theme has also arisen in recent discussions of my review of Pete Enns’…
The good folks at Baker Academic have posted the first of a short series of videos introducing the new, second edition of my book, The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic. In this first one I give a brief overview of the core argument of the book. Get your popcorn.
Gee, so Randall Balmer doesn’t like Ross Douthat’s new book, Bad Religion? Shocker. Yes, this morning’s Times confirms what anyone could have known before Douthat even conceived of such a book: the liberal Balmer doesn’t like Douthat’s thesis. Balmer’s predictability is on full display in this review which is pretty much an adventure in missing the…
At the end of his provocative essay, “Sex in Public: How Adventurous Christians Are Doing It,” Stanley Hauerwas articulates a crucial point: “[W]hat the young properly demand is an account of life and the initiation into a community that makes intelligible why their interest in sex should be subordinated to other interests. What they, and…
I have just posted a review of Pete Enns’ important new book, The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say About Human Origins (Brazos, 2012) over at The Colossian Forum site.