Well lifes been busy….. spent a week away at the Wales Evangelical School of Theology doing my last module for my MTh, and been trying to catch up ever since!
This time it was Christology and Soteriology, with a look at the New
Perspective(s) – yes, there now appears to be as many perspectives as
theologians – especially as per James Dunn and N T Wright. We had some
good lectures and discussions – there’s something about learning
together.
One interesting exercise was going down to the library and looking at
the growing use of extra Biblical resources in commentaries in the last
ten years – a shocking eye opener, with some ranging up to 10 pages of
references!
How encouraging to hear that its a move in the wrong direction
(contra Dunn and Wright), and the Old Testament is to be our base and
guide to understanding the New. To do otherwise is to suggest that in a
hundred or so years time people could gather from the writings of the
Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses and any other cult and suggest that their
understanding of the Bible should help people of the day know what
Christians really believed back then! No way!
So, be encouraged, it doesn’t matter that you don’t have access to
the Dead Sea Scrolls or the numerous other bits of literature only
available to academia. Your Bible is inspired by God and fully
trustworthy. Get to know the Old Testament and how it is worked out in
the New – what a book; what a message!
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