Crumbs from the Master's Table

Have you ever read Mark 2:18–22 and scratched your head wondering what on earth Jesus is talking about? I have. Repeatedly. What do his illu...

In Jas. 1:1, James is a slave both of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. In the same breath, he tells us—on the face of it—that his bondserv...

Speaking of the Corinthian correspondence: No part of the Pauline corpus more clearly illuminates the character of Paul the man, Paul the ...

Many scholars, as many of you are no doubt familiar, have proposed a "center" to the whole Bible. There is nothing like consensus ...

In his influential popular-level book According to Plan , Graeme Goldsworthy comments on an unhappy development in Old Testament Studies: ...

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

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

C. S. Lewis: The New Testament has lots to say about self-denial, but not about self-denial as an end in itself. We are told to deny ourse...

Andy Naselli, professor of NT and theology at Bethlehem College and Seminary, provides an   overview of the New Testament in ten minutes . ...

"There is nothing in the NT quite like the current infatuation for expressions like 'kingdom ethics,' in which 'kingdom...

Peter Leithart: As with the synoptic problem as a whole, the issue of dating is ultimately a spiritual battle. Consider: If the gospels ar...

Peter Leithart: If the view of the church fathers explains the gospels, and does so fairly simply, why do scholars have to invent a compli...

Here's my tentative summary of Romans in broad outline: Romans 1-4: The Gospel of God's Justification of the Ungodly by Faith Alon...

N. T. Wright's first volume of a projected six-volume work called The New Testament and the People of God  is organized in five parts.  ...

Many have proposed a center for New Testament Theology.  Professor G. K. Beale's proposal embraces a great deal of revelation and appear...