Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Steph writes the following as a guest posting here. And I’m happy to lend her the space. Ben Witherington has made serious allegations about Sheffield and should apologise or withdraw them. Here is my response to what he has had to say: I have been friends with the department for four or five years and my supervisor has [...]
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
James Crossley has posted and in so doing offers what can only be described honestly as something really strange Ben Witherington #3 evidently said in response to the now resolved crisis at Sheffield. Other faculty [at Sheffield] were “bent on the deconstruction of the Bible, and indeed of their students’ faith,” according to Ben Witherington, a [...]
Restless and Reforming (Free subscription) | yesterday
... way. What interests me about those who tend to advocate the latter reading (e.g. N.T. Wright, Ben Witherington III) is that they tend to deny the imputation of Christ's active obedience (IAO). On the other hand, the staunchest defenders of the traditional former rendering, (e.g. D.A. Carson) tend to affirm IAO. Weird! Why so? Well, firstly, I'm not suggesting that we adapt our exegesis/translations...
LiturgicalCredo.com's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... of intellectual certainty and even smugness about things that are in fact profound mysteries.” — Ben Witherington, here “While a problem can be solved, a mystery is inexhaustible. A problem can be held at arm’s length; a mystery encompasses us and will not let us keep a safe distance.” — Daniel L. Migliore, in his book Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology ;...
Euangelion (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... make it available for the blog in the very near future. It was a great time as I mucked it up with Ben Witherington, Darrell Bock, Nick Perrin and others. The session as a whole was rather laborious when I wasn't involved, but the discussion at the end was good fun.
Journalspace.com Blogs - Site Wide Activity (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: I have been saved, I am being saved, and I will be saved It is 1:13 PM Sunday afternoon. I will quote some more from Ben Witherington III’s book “The Indelible Image: The Theological and Ethical Thought World of the New Testament” Volume One “The Individual Witnesses”— “What is especially noteworthy is that Paul, like...
Journalspace.com Blogs - Site Wide Activity (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... and Ethical Thought World of the New Testament” Volume One “The Individual Witnesses” by Ben Witherington III. I read this yesterday in Witherington’s book“In this context we may briefly examine the issue of homosexual and lesbian behavior. Sometimes it is said that Jesus has nothing to say on this issue. This is not true, because the implications of speaking about fidelity in heterosexual...
Clayboy (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
It all started when Ben Witherington made some careless and unsubstantiated accusations about Sheffield Biblical Studies department in Christianity Today. faculty were “bent on the deconstruction of the Bible, and indeed of their students’ faith,” according to Ben Witherington, a New Testament scholar at Asbury Theological Seminary. This at least had the merit of waking...
Hypotyposeis (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
James Crossley at Earliest Christian History has broken his months-long blog silence to take Ben Witherington, III, to task over some comments of his quoted in Christianity Today about the attempted and failed demise of the Biblical Studies department at Sheffield: Sheffield and some odd comments attributed to BW3 (Nov. 5, 2009), More of the same from BW3 (Nov. 7, 2009), and Yet more from BW3!...
Earliest Christian History (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Many things have been said about the situation at Sheffield and many, many nice things. Predictably enough, let's focus on the negative... In a recent Christianity Today article there were a couple of strange comments but none more annoying than the following attributed to Ben Witherington III. Other faculty [at Sheffield] were "bent on the deconstruction of the Bible, and indeed of their...
evangelical textual criticism (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... Jesus 4- Second century papyri (published originally in English on bible.org). Other: 5- Ben Witherington, "Misanalyzing textual criticism" 6- Craig Blomberg, Review of Misquoting Jesus 7- Michael Kruger, Review of Misquoting Jesus 8- Peter Williams, Review of Misquoting Jesus We also got permission to translate Misquotes in Misquoting Jesus (of Dillon Burroughs), which we are...
Journalspace.com Blogs - Site Wide Activity (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... Anti-Judaism Must Be Challenged” by Barry E. Horner“Matthew” [Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary] by Ben Witherington III“Matthew” [The NIV Application Commentary] by Michael J. WilkinsMy view is that if I am going to fall asleep all day I might as well have the Word of God on my mind. It is a blessing to have the Bible in your lap as you fall asleep in a quiet working class neighborhood. Just...
