Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Being Ideal Readers: 2 putting it all together

In part two we get drawn to the hymn in Phil 2 and discover not only what Jesus' disscension is all about, but also get to understand the talk of us being gifts in Eph 4:11-13 better. (If you have not listened to part 1 do listen to that first.)



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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Casuistic and apodictic: part 3: Jesus reads more Scripture

We look at how Jesus reads other Bible passages (still in Matthew 5) to begin confirming the hypothesis that to read Scripture with Jesus is to make it so extreme that rules (casuistic law) become goals (apodictic command). Before you get to the next podcast it would be a good idea to listen to "What DOES "fulfil" mean?" and "Jesus as fulfilment of Scripture: Slavery and Spanking"



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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Casuistic and apodictic: part 2: The Jesus Key

In this I'll tell you how I think Jesus offers the key to how we should understand the casuistic laws of the Old Testament. It's simple, but as I'll go on to show in later 'casts profound. The clue is found in a passage we've looked at before (Matt 5) especially in Matt 5:17-22. (See here for that 'cast, and here for a whole sermon ;) .



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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Casuistic and apodictic: part 1: What the terms mean

The distinction between casuistic and apodictic formulations of "legal" material in the Bible, seems like a prime example of scholarship which has lost touch with the needs of real Bible readers. Not least the abstruse technical language puts people off. Yet this distinction has deeply theological consequences, and Jesus seems to "fulfill" OT law (at least in part) by rephrasing the casuistic as apodictic.

In this first part I'll begin the boring stuff, and introduce what scholars meant by distinguishing casuistic from apodictic material in the laws of the Old Testament. Part 2 will get to the exciting stuff. (I know this is not the best way to gain your attention, but sometimes work is needed before the fun can start.)





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Friday, April 18, 2008

The Perspicuity of Scripture (i)

My tradition (the Baptist part of the Nonconformist or radical Reformation) has stressed the idea that Scripture is perspicuous, that the Bible is easy to understand, and that anyone can understand it - or at least grasp its essentials - without special training or equipment. Yet there are for sure some difficult passages. There are also passages that seem to flat out contradict other parts of the Bible. How can you call a book like that "perspicuous"?

In this post I'll argue that one key mistake we make is to think of the Bible as if all its parts were also "Bible", they aren't they are merely fragments!




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Sunday, May 13, 2007

Jesus as fulfilment of Scripture: Slavery and Spanking

This 'cast continues the theme of Jesus as the "fulfilment" of Scripture, looking at one topic that's been settled for decades, and another that's as hot as today's headlines. (At least here in NZ where a bill to criminalise parents spanking children is set to become law shortly!)



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