Given my previous discussions, in what sense can it be said that the Bible is inspired? I want to articulate the beginnings of a theory of inspiration, one I will call via media (VM) for the time being. VM inspiration, as I conceive it, allows for a high view of the Scriptures while not positing [...]
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Posted in Hermeneutics, New Testament, tagged allegory, bibliology, christology, inerrancy, inspiration, moses, philo, typology, wisdom on June 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Earlier I began to explore a view of the inspiration of the Bible that would allow biblical writers greater room for personal creativity and would explain certain phenomena in the biblical texts as human literary activity rather than Divinely-communicated truths. Later I wish to say a few more things about the implications of this, but [...]
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Posted in Philosophy, tagged cogito, consciousness, descartes, dualism, epistemology, lynne baker, material constitution, metaphysics, mind, personhood, persons, philosophy of mind, soul on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The philosophy that came after “the cogito” is very debatable, but you have to love how Descartes gets there, his deep skepticism, and the foundation of one’s thinking self. Philosophy at its best, before it got utterly unreadable. But in Persons and Bodies, Lynne Baker includes an argument that would modify Descartes’ ergo sum.
Baker’s Constitution [...]
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The relevance of chapter 27, “Natural Theology within Biblical Theology,” in the 600-page (not including endnotes) The Concept of Biblical Theology eluded me until the conclusion. The author writes:
Biblical theology—not only in its ‘canonical’ forms—has tended to be a very closed, inward-looking discipline. […] The main attraction has lain in gaining the maximum concentration of [...]
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James Barr seems at his most trenchant when clarifying concepts normally taken for granted. Though we move easily between the various meanings of “history” in biblical study, Barr helpfully delineates its functions, though, as he himself points out, his categories are by no means mutually exclusive. I hope to make my paraphrase of Barr in [...]
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