Sublime

Constantine Campbell says, While the father of the Reformation held a view of imputation that depended on union with Christ, the trajectory of later Protestantism followed Melanchthon rather than Luther. Melanchthon thought primarily of the cross as a transaction and, according to [Mark] Seifrid, “the later Protestant formulaic description of justi

This will be a theme of my book: modern theologies of the New Testament were failures from a Christian point of view precisely because what they ended up offering was bad history, bad theology, or both.

The Garden Story is about immortality lost and sexuality gained.23

the Bible should be envisioned as a text punctuated only by word spaces4-with nothing to indicate sections, paragraphs, or even verses. Our first step when reading all biblical texts must be to…

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Above all, the key experience of Judaism, from Mosaic times to today, is studying the Torah.

The gospels are revealed as quite sophisticated documents, and if we wish to retain the Bultmannian paradigm we must invent ever more cunning sub-theories to account for them as they actually are. The great irony of this total position, seen from the perspective I shall advance, is that it regards genuinely mythological language (apocalyptic) as th

But, as we shall see presently, in Scripture, in second-temple Jewish literature, and in Paul himself, not least in Paul's reading of Scripture, God's way ofputting the world right is precisely through his covenant with Israel. This is the theme that will emerge clearly in the exegesis in due course. God's single plan to put the world to rights is