James informs us that he’s performing a public lecture this evening titled What New Testament Studies Could Be Doing but Isn’t. I don’t know what his answer might be but here’s mine: ‘focusing less on modern scholars and more on Reformation theologians whose insights were surpassingly superior to 95% of their modern counterparts’. Yes, NT Wright, I’m looking at you… Calvin was a far better exegete… Anyway, here’s the promo photo of James posing somewhere in the UK on his way to Church I suppose…
6 responses so far ↓
Esteban Vázquez // November 20, 2008 at 7:33 am
Oh! My kingdom for Photoshop software!
Angie Van De Merwe // November 20, 2008 at 11:29 am
Modern scholarship is True! Calvin did not know nor have the capacity to understand what modern science “gives us”. Theology is challenged with the new scientific understandings of the physical realm and the human realm. These scientific findings cannot be ignored, but must be affirmed within the theological spectrum…..
Jim // November 20, 2008 at 11:32 am
what? calvin’s superiority as an exegete has nothing to do with so called ’science’ nor its waffling between its multifaced claims.
Michael Janapin // November 20, 2008 at 5:56 pm
My two-cent Questions:
1. Is Calvin really at the bottom of the reformation exegetes’ pile?
2. Is James really going to a church?
Jim // November 20, 2008 at 5:58 pm
if by that you mean the best of them, then yes.
and no, probably not.
Esteban Vázquez // November 20, 2008 at 6:37 pm
what? calvin’s superiority as an exegete has nothing to do with so called ’science’ nor its waffling between its multifaced claims.
Amen!
Nor, indeed, does it have anything to do with modern exegetical scholarship, to which it is vastly superior.
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