Common Denominator

I continue my re-videoing of Hebrews commentary Previously, Hebrews 1:1-4 Now, Hebrews 1:5-14 (39 minutes), followed by my written Expla...

I've been giving my hermeneutical autobiography on the weekend these last few months.  The first group of posts were on  Learning to rea...

... continued from the previous post . __________________ Mark's Presentation The Gospel of Mark divides nicely into two parts.  The ...

I started to write a piece on the Higgs boson, but I can't compete with this:   Somehow I finished high school and college without k...

Celebrating today the Enlightenment experiment called the U. S. of A. on this anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence...

Time to start volume 2 of the Jesus series I've been writing. I'm not quite done editing the first volume, but need to get some writ...

Just now finally turned around the first round of edits to my forthcoming philosophy book.  I had finished it while in Germany, then the edi...

I wanted to post here a good discussion Dick Norton and I have been having on the polyvalence of the Old Testament for some time.  He is tak...

... continued from yesterday's post in my hermeneutical autobiography: What was Matthew Thinking? _________ I now believe that it was ...

I have now completed two chunks of reflecting on my own hermeneutical autobiography.  I'll at least continue through this third chunk.  ...

A number of things in the news of some significance. First, a German court ruled that parents could not circumcise their children because...

Excellent piece on this found here , by the way. By the time of the Middle Ages, Christian interpreters of the Bible had come to classify ...

When we went about designing a seminary, we started with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions we believed a pastor should have and worked...

I began this evaluative summary Monday .  For the full text of Augustine's On Christian Doctrine , see here . _________________ August...

The Wesleyan Church has, probably, less than ten Bible scholars in its ranks at present.  Of course everyone thinks they can speak to the or...

What follows is the first part of a summary and comment on this classic hermeneutical work by Augustine.  If you want to read this classic C...

1.  My early realizations about context and continued with last weekend's start of discussing issues of the biblical text: 2.1  Issue...

My weekend series of hermeneutical biography.  It started with... 1. My early realizations about context ... and continued with last wee...

It has been personally helpful to think of myself as ultimately responsible to God rather than to humans.  This can be a cop-out or an excus...

Last night Wesley Seminary (@IWU) was officially voted in as Associate Members of the Association of Theological Schools (ATS).  President H...