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The richness in the Trinity provides resources for a rich view of the Trinity. This paper considers a specific case, how appropriate metaphysics deriving from the Trinity helps assess Calvin’s view of the Son as “autotheos.” A key source for an appropriate metaphysics is the fact that the Father as Original reflects himself in the … Read more
The Biblia Hebraica Quinta series recently published its edition of the book of Job in the Fall of 2024. This publication furnishes the opportunity to review the aims of BHQ and the new Job edition. Specifically, this presentation will evaluate BHQ Job’s use of Old Greek Job and the Hexaplaric remains of Job within its … Read more
The significance of postcolonial studies in Christian Scholarship is undeniable. Its deconstructive arguments have compelled biblical and theological scholars to reassess long-held epistemologies and traditions that have caused significant contextual damage, some of which may be irreparable. However, the relationship between postcolonial studies and the Bible remains complex. In postcolonial Africa, it is common for … Read more
This is a study of the use of the Greek noun usually rendered “salvation” (σωτηρία) and the verbs usually translated “save” (σῴζω and διασῴζω) in 1 Peter in order to better understand their meaning in the context of this letter. The study will develop with a summary of the beginning, the process, and the completion, … Read more
There are two fundamental truths about humanity. The good truth is that as image bearers, humans are afforded inherent dignity. Drawing on concepts present in Pascal’s reflections on greatness and wretchedness and Luther’s assertion that Christians are both saints and sinners, this study shows how all human beings contribute positively to God’s creation through traits … Read more
This paper presents an innovative “unhiding” reading of Luke’s parables that reconceptualizes ancient narratives by engaging the imaginative processes of first‐century audiences. Unhiding is unique in its approach as it focuses on parables—narratives rooted in the realia and emic environment of the first-century Mediterranean—and invites audiences to employ their hermeneutical skills to reconstruct the unseen. … Read more
This paper will argue from the given deficiencies of the analogy between the Incarnation and Scripture that a better analogy exists between the inspiration of Scripture and the doctrine of Christ’s theandric acts. I assume the inadequacies of the original analogy and make the somewhat modest argument that the proposed analogy is a better analogy … Read more
God using human agents to deliverer (his) people from death and oppression constitutes a major recurring storyline in the Bible in general and the Old Testament in particular. Despite its frequency—or perhaps because of it—deliverance as a literary convention remains underdeveloped. Current scholarship instead focuses on exodus motifs (e.g., Estelle 2018, Roberts and Wilson 2018, … Read more
Traditional strategies for interpreting the Book of Revelation have broadly included historical and social-scientific criticism, literary criticism, and theological and ethical approaches. In recent years, however, the Book of Revelation has begun to attract modern linguistic analysis because of the recognition of the book’s foundational textual nature and the relevance of linguistics for interdisciplinary scholars. … Read more
A popular narrative maintains that Protestant iconoclasm in worship produced an impoverished aesthetic and symbolic imagination, but much is missed in this account. Historians have long described the Puritan imagination as ripe with biblical-symbolic imagery. We see this contemplative tradition on full display in Edwards’s Image of Divine Things and Baxter’s The Saints’ Everlasting Rest. … Read more