Crumbs from the Master's Table

Luther: I acknowledge no fixed rules for the interpretation of the Word of God, since the Word of God, which teaches freedom in all other ...

The following quotation accurately describes my own experience and understanding both of Edwards and the current state of affairs in modern ...

"It seems rather a waste of time to spend, say, five years working out a position, only to find that it has already been done by a Syri...

"Instead of asking how the text 'applies' to us in our day and age as if the important thing is to discover how the text relate...

D. A. Carson: The wealth of possible backgrounds to the term logos in John’s Prologue suggests that the determining factor is not this or...

Frame: Each particular verse of Scripture has many contexts: the verses on either side, the book it is part of, the section of Scripture i...

“The subject matter of theology should determine the methodological manner in which we approach it” (Vanhoozer, Faith Speaking Und...

"He is a slave to a sign who uses or worships a significant thing without knowing what it signifies" (St. Augustine, On Interpret...

Vanhoozer: According to Hans-Georg Gadamer, interpretation is like entering into the “play” of the text, which “always involves something ...

"Until lions have their historians, the hunter will always be the hero of the story." —As recalled by Michael W. Goheen, Introduci...

Here's a good brief  post  on a good revised theological dictionary: NIDNTTE .

In a paper titled "Towards a Canonical Reading of the Psalms," Gordon Wenham asks and answers the question, "what is the cano...

Kevin Vanhoozer: The author's will acts as a control on interpretation. Thanks to an author's willing  this  rather than  that , ...

"God is the Author of authors" (Kevin Vanhoozer, Is There a Meaning in This Text ? 47).

How shall we interpret the book of James? Among other things that could be said (say, for example, about the genre of James), here is an imp...

Carson: The kind of biblical theology that is profoundly grounded in tracing out the Bible's plot-line is intrinsically more likely to...

J. I. Packer: "The conclusions supposed to have been established by last-century biblical criticism were really the presuppositions o...

Vogt: A narrative is a selective record of a series of events that uses shared conventions to convey the author's communicative intent...

Here is another paper I produced at Wheaton College, this time for a class on New Testament criticism under Professor Nick Perrin. It seems ...

Here is the first paper I wrote for my first class,  under Professor Gene Green,  in the graduate program I did at Wheaton College. It'...