You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but you should judge a book by its purpose. Some books are meant to be read for fun; I devoured the Hardy Boys detective novels as a kid. Some books are meant to be used as guides; I used the Merriam-Webster Dictionary to look up the meaning of the word “colophon” […]
Read more "How to Read the Book"The complex, allusive imagery and controversial interpretations of apocalyptic literature can turn the task of understanding it into a terrifying beast of three heads and a multitude of wings. However, even with his biases, Collins largely accomplishes his thesis and creates a useful generic paradigm through which this body of literature can be read.
Read more "Review: Apocalyptic Imagination by John Collins"The point of knowing Scripture is to know God – this is the starting point for Daniel Treier’s work to describe and guide Theological Interpretation of Scripture (henceforth TIS)… In what follows, I’ll do my best to give a brief overview of the book and my thoughts about it.
Read more "Bringing the Book Back to its People"The Bible tells us that Jesus loves us. But the Bible is a really big book! The one sitting in front of me has 1,316 pages, each of which has two columns of words in small type. The Bible is also a really complicated book – it’s actually 66 books, written by over two dozen authors, over thousands of years, in multiple languages. We believe that God has given us this book as his true word, but how do you begin to make sense of a book like this?
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Cade Patterson 