Redemption and Eschatology
Richard Gaffin wrote in an article I just read on Systematic Theology and Biblical Theology: If there is one conclusion that a redemptive-historically sensitive interpretation of Scripture has reached, it is that eschatology is to be defined not only with reference to the intermediate state of individuals following death and to the second coming of Christ but inclusive of his first coming and the present existence of the church in the world. (Westminster Theological Journal 38:298-299, 1976.)...
Richard Gaffin 32 Years Ago on Systematic Theology
Another blogger just recommended to me two articles on the relationship between Systematic Theology and Biblical Theology. One is by Richard Gaffin, written in the Westminster Theological Journal in 1976 (the other is from 2008 by Vern Poythress). In it he traces the history of the understanding of Biblical Theology with special focus on Old Princeton and its heirs at Westminster. Let me hit the high points: J.P. Gabler viewed BT as wholly descriptive because he bought into a...
The Books of the Bible
The Books of the Bible is, if you're a regular reader of my blog, something you know I've been excited about since December when I got my copy. I even managed to sell a whole case of them without trying! My excitement exists because I think the excision of chapter and verse numbers recovers something important for Bible reading. The developers of the BOTB noticed my enthusiasm on my blog and asked me to provide some reflections on my experience reading this new Bible edition. I asked them to...
Carson’s Summary of the Meanings of “Biblical Theology”
D.A. Carson gives a helpful big summary of biblical theology in the Dictionary of the Later New Testament and its Developments. I read and marked it up on Logos. I recommend it. D.A. Carson gives a helpful small summary of biblical theology—or at least the way people use the term—in his book Christ and Culture Revisited: "Biblical theology" has become a highly disputed expression. Some use it to refer to the theology of individual biblical books or corpora (e.g., the theology of Matthew, the...
The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament
I have some portions of the Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament in the version of Logos Scholar's Gold I purchased two years ago. I confess that I have not found a pressing need for the Lexham SGNT, though I would like to! Recently two people asked me what I thought of it, and I have to admit that use of the LSGNT is one of those things I've tabled till need drives me. I believe I'm aware of what it does, and when that killer question comes up which only the LSGNT can help me answer, I'll use...