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How should the reader approach the Psalms? How should he or she regard the author(s) of a psalm and the content of the psalm itself? This paper proposes the OT and NT authors present the authors of the individual psalms as prophets and the content of the psalms as prophecies. These two facts should impact … Read more
In contemporary soteriological discourse, the assertion has frequently been made that penal substitution jeopardizes the union of the Trinity. To answer the concern, many advocates of penal substitution have turned to the inseparability of operations in order to blunt the charge. While the inseparability of operations successfully circumnavigates some aspects of the Trinitarian Critique–as in … Read more
From the last quarter of the sixteenth century, western biblical scholars have incorporated the remains of Origen’s Hexapla (readings of Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, Quinta, Sexta) into serious study of the biblical text. Editors of the Septuagint included these readings in their editions and Bible commentators referred to them in their interpretations and reconstructions of the … Read more
In this paper, I will examine the textual omission at Acts 8:37 – “Then Philip said, ‘If you believe with all your heart, you may.’ And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.” Bruce Metzger noted in his Textual Commentary that “Ver. 37 is a Western addition, not … Read more
Assuming biblical inerrancy as a starting point, this paper provides a reconstruction of the composition of the Pentateuch that charts a “via media” between the Documentary Hypothesis and the traditional view of comprehensive Mosaic authorship. The available data can be grouped under five headings: (1) The Pentateuch credits Moses with writing several of Israel’s “constitutional … Read more
This proposed paper is based upon a chapter from a dissertation entitled “Christ over All Things: Cosmic Christ in Colossians and Ephesians in the Context of Ancient Judaism” completed at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in May 2023. This proposed paper aims to examine the cosmic Christological thought of Colossians through the lens of Jewish royal … Read more
The eighth verse of Ephesians 4 has sparked considerable scholarly attention. Various morphological differences exist between the text attested in Eph 4:8 and Ps 68:18 [v. 19 MT, Hebrew versification used hereafter]. However, the greatest interpretive problem is the apparent lexical alteration from λαμβάνω/לָקַח in Ps 68:19b to δίδωμι in Eph 4:8b. This presentation will … Read more
Clement of Alexandria has often been portrayed as the quintessential “Christian Platonist” on account of his deep intellectual roots in the Greco-Roman philosophical tradition (Bigg, The Christian Platonists of Alexandria; Lilla, Clement of Alexandria: A Study in Christian Platonism). And indeed, his Protrepticus, or Exhortation to the Greeks, in particular, displays profound engagement with leading … Read more
Chief Albert Luthuli was the first African Nobel Laureate, a confessing and practicing Christian within the Congregational Church, and an anti-apartheid activist who was President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 until his untimely death in 1967. Guided by the notion that particular and contextual theological reflections possess broader, catholic significance, the paper discusses … Read more
The nature of Christ’s millennial kingdom was one that greatly preoccupied English theologians across the long seventeenth century. The national trauma of the English civil war throughout the 1640s and the execution of Charles I in 1649 produced many millennial postulations, yet upon Charles II’s rise to the throne in 1660 and the 1688 “Glorious” … Read more