Triperspectival Theology for the Church
Experimental vs. Historical One of the things I think to keep in mind is that there’s a difference between experimental science and what you might call historical science—or science that’s trying …
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Vern S. Poythress, Structural Approaches to Understanding the Theology of the Apostle Paul (PDF). This piece is my Th.D. dissertation at the University of Stellenbosch, 1981. Quite a bit of time has …
Genesis 1–3 is an account of things that happened in time and space—so it’s a reality of what we might call nonfiction or historical. But it’s actual things, not made-up things, that God did that you …
Johannes Oecolampadius as Biblical Interpreter by Diane M. Poythress [The following is a pre-publication manuscript that is to be included in the Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation, to …
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Humility Required To the degree that sin remains within us, we all run to find in the Bible what we want it to say rather than what it actually does say. So, that creates a challenge to humble …
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The following post appeared originally on the Bible Gateway blog; it is used by permission. How can we faithfully read and understand Genesis 1-3? What are the implications related to divine …
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