President Obama’s Nobel Speech
I finally got around to reading President Obama’s Nobel acceptance speech, and I commend it to you. David Brooks made the interesting point that Obama, though certainly a political liberal, did not speak like a secularist. He talks freely of higher-order purposes. He bases much of his argument on them.
Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Beale and Carson explain what they will not cover in their preface to the Commentary on the New Testament use of the Old Testament: We have not summarized the extraordinarily complex developments in the field of typology since Leonhard Goppelt wrote his 1939 book Typos. (xxiii) I must say. Sounds like a hilarious book, but I’m not sure what poor proofreading has to do with exegesis. Ah well. Beale and Carson asked each of the contributors to this thick volume to keep in mind six questions:...
“Emotional” < “Analytical”
Jennifer Senior writes in a New York Magazine article about how pro-choice our nation isn’t, The pro-choice movement has always had the harder job. The choice argument is an analytical one, grounded in theories of privacy and the rights of the mother; the pro-life side has the case with instant visceral and emotional appeal: This is life we’re talking about. Really? The pro-choice argument boils down to “I want what’s best for myself.” Sounds pretty visceral to me. If the pro-choice side has...
Dabney on Counterfeit Gods
We conceive formal idolatry, as that of the Hindu, a very foolish and flagrant thing; we palliate… spiritual idolatry of passions. God classes them together, in order to show us the enormity of the latter. Robert L. Dabney, Systematic Theology (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1985), 443.
Quiz Answers
At Rubén Gómez’s request, here are the answers to all the questions in my BibleWorks Pop Quiz. I included the commands I used. If I’ve overlooked a better command or made some error, I’m happy to hear about it in the comments. 1. Find all ESV occurrences in Paul of words beginning in, but not the word in. ESV .in?* 209 hits 2. How many Greek OT verses are there with the forms κυριος AND θεος? l OT BGT .κυριος θεος 840 hits 3. How many Greek OT verses are there with the lemmas κυριος AND θεος?...