finitum non capax infiniti (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
Today I had the great opportunity to attend two lectures at Eastern University that were part of The American Scientific Affiliation’s regional meeting. The two speakers were Peter Enns, biblical scholar at large, and Edward (”Ted”) Davis, Distinguished Professor of the History of Science at Messiah College. A few of my friends and [...]
finitum non capax infiniti (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Peter Enns and Stephen Chapman had a conversation last month on the topic “Is the Bible Ever Wrong?” at Duke Divinity School. The conversation was sponsored by the Socratic Club at Duke. You can download it here. (Mac users: option+click to save; Windows users: don’t even get me started). You can also stream it if [...]
Sets 'n' Service (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
What forgiveness is? We are commanded by Jesus to forgive others, even those…especially those…who have wronged us. He commands us to do so, because, when we forgive, especially those who have wronged us terribly, we are most like him. Forgiveness does not mean that we make believe the injustice never happened, or make light of it. It [...]
finitum non capax infiniti (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Pete Enns has an excellent and moving post on forgiveness up on his website. For anyone who has been through the past few years at WTS, it speaks volumes. For those of you who haven’t or have no idea what WTS even stands for, the post is very much worth reading. Pete writes, When we [...]
Custardy (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Christian understanding of the OT should begin with what God revealed to the Apostles and what they model for us: the centrality of the death and resurrection of Christ for OT interpretation... The reality of the crucified and risen Christ is both the goal and font of Christian biblical interpretation. Peter Enns, Apostolic Hermeneutics
Earliest Christian History (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
'...G. K. Beale attempts vigorously and even-handedly to examine the writings of one leading postmodernist, Peter Enns...' (from the blurb for Beale's new book) As a few people have noticed the labelling of Enns (it's not clear who is responsible for the blurb) as a 'leading postmodernist' is very bizarre. As NT Wrong put it, For those who don’t get the joke, Enns is very...
Between Two Worlds (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Andrew Faris interviews Ken Berding and Jon Lunde, editors of the book, Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (contributors are Walter Kaiser, Darrell Bock, and Peter Enns). Related: Andy Naselli reproduces a helpful chart from the book giving a thumbnail sketch as to how the three contributors answer five key questions on this topic.
Triablogue (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Peter Enns reignited a musty old debate over the relation, if any, between Gen 1 and the Enuma Elish. Paul Seely recycled the same stale arguments. They act as if this is new evidence. That conservative scholars have never come to terms with this material. But that’s old news, and it’s been dealt with many times before. Here’s one example: “Thus, the discourse structure of the initial...
internetmonk.com (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
... still shoot each other with some regularity. We’re studying Exodus in my Bible classes, and Peter Enns’ Exodus Commentary in the NIV Application Commentary series is outstanding for teaching that is aimed at bridging contexts and majoring on application. I have several good commentaries in that series. They are non-scholarly, but highly useful to the communicator. Robert Velarde writes...
Kingdom People (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
... book, Surprised by Hope and some questions that his readers / critics have about the book. 5. The Peter Enns Controversy March 29, 2008 Last Spring, professor Peter Enns was suspended from teaching at Westminster Theological Seminary. I tried to give a brief overview of the controversy in this post.
