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Postscript to an Article on the Judgment Seat of Christ in 2 Cor. 5:10
Read more: Postscript to an Article on the Judgment Seat of Christ in 2 Cor. 5:10In response to my full article on a new reading of 2 Corinthians 5.10 (which you can read here in full), Dr. Garland wrote: “Tom rightly points [out] that one’s unexamined presuppositions about what the text says tends to predetermine the reading of the Greek grammar. If one assumes the interpretation is correct, one is…
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Jeannine K. Brown, Embedded Genres in the New Testament: Understanding Their Impact for Interpretation (Reflections for 2 Corinthians 5:10)
Read more: Jeannine K. Brown, Embedded Genres in the New Testament: Understanding Their Impact for Interpretation (Reflections for 2 Corinthians 5:10)Dr. Jeannine Brown’s new book, Embedded Genres in the New Testament: Understanding Their Impact for Interpretation (Baker), was a delight to read and should benefit both scholar and lay Christian alike. What intrigued me the most was the preliminary matter of attempting to identify and sort through various subgenres within larger works, and then how…
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Paul and the Resurrection of Israel with Dr. Jason Staples (Podcast)
Read more: Paul and the Resurrection of Israel with Dr. Jason Staples (Podcast)In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Jason Staples, who is Asst Teaching Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University, and the author of The Idea of Israel (CUP) as well as the more recent book that we’re discussing in this episode, Paul and the Resurrection of Israel…
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A Disabled Apostle with Dr. Isaac Soon (Podcast)
Read more: A Disabled Apostle with Dr. Isaac Soon (Podcast)CW: references to self-harm. In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Isaac T. Soon, who is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Crandall University in New Brunswick, and the author of A Disabled Apostle: Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Paul (published by Oxford University Press). Drawing upon the cultural model of disability, Dr….
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Artemis of the Ephesians with Dr. Sandra Glahn (Podcast)
Read more: Artemis of the Ephesians with Dr. Sandra Glahn (Podcast)In this episode we’re talking about Artemis of the Ephesians with Dr. Sandra Glahn, who is Professor of Media Arts and Worship at Dallas Theological Seminary, and the author of the book that we’re excited to discuss on this episode, Nobody’s Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament (published by IVP)….
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Pauline Theology as a Way of Life with Professor Joshua Jipp (Podcast)
Read more: Pauline Theology as a Way of Life with Professor Joshua Jipp (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Professor Joshua Jipp to talk about Pauline Theology as a Way of Life. Professor Jipp is Professor of New Testament and Director of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, IL), and the author of the book that we’re excited to…
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Early Christian Protagonists and their Impairments with Dr. Kylie Crabbe (Podcast)
Read more: Early Christian Protagonists and their Impairments with Dr. Kylie Crabbe (Podcast)Alt txt: photo including the title of the episode next to images of our guest, Dr. Kylie Crabbe, a few of our co-hosts, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Stephanie Kate Judd, and Rev. Dr. Chris Porter. Continuing our series on disability and theology, we conclude our look at textual matters within this series by looking at…
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Identity & Religious Enmity with Dr. Sam Perry and Dr. Elizabeth Shively (Podcast)
Read more: Identity & Religious Enmity with Dr. Sam Perry and Dr. Elizabeth Shively (Podcast)In this episode we debrief a recent conference on socio-scientific approaches to religious enmity that Dr. Chris Porter organized at Trinity College, Melbourne. For this conversation we are joined by two keynote speakers from the conference: Dr. Sam Perry, who is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma, and Dr….
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Interpreting Philemon with Dr. Dennis Edwards (Podcast)
Read more: Interpreting Philemon with Dr. Dennis Edwards (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Dennis Edwards to talk about the interpretation of Philemon. Dr. Edwards is Associate Professor of New Testament at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, and the author of Might from the Margins: The Gospel’s Power to Turn the Tables on Injustice (Herald Press) with a forthcoming book on…
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What’s the point? Reimagining Paul and masculinity
Read more: What’s the point? Reimagining Paul and masculinityWhen I first shared news of my current project on social media, it attracted a couple of comments describing it as pointless, borderline-idolatrous, irrelevant to the gospel, and a waste of money. Mostly, this sort of thing just makes me smile and suggests to me that I’m probably doing good work—talking about the Bible (Paul’s…