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I'm a researcher in New Testament, and I write here about things I'm learning. That means you'll find stuff on scripture, theology, linguistics, culture, history, pedagogy, etc.
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Radner on Preaching 4: Christians Are Figural Readers (opens the original)
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In every other instance in the NT that alludes to Psalm 69, the psalm is interpreted with Jesus as the focus. Think “zeal for your house will consume me” or “they hated me without cause” or “they gave me vinegar for my thirst.”These instances are not uninteresting or unproblematic textually. (In fact, in John, all three are essentially reinterpretations that display profound christological commitments.) But because they are “christological,” they are vulnerable to theological resources like “yea
Radner on Preaching 3: Strange is Good (opens the original)
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I have a ton of friends who have read Radner and decided that he’s not worth the effort. And I think one of the main reasons people are turned off by him is simply that the things he’s trying to revise are so basic and commonsensical that if you mess with them, you scramble everything. Ideas like “what if the Spirit has left the Church?” or “what if, instead of Time being the succession of events, Time is actually just Scripture?”It’s the kind of idea that might make a person put the book down,
Radner on Preaching 2: What is Radner Doing? (opens the original)
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I introduced the series with the claim that Ephraim Radner’s work is worth the effort even tho he’s difficult. The upshot is that Radner gave me a renewed vision for the ontology of Scripture and a scriptural ontology (of everything else) that supports a beautiful way of thinking about what preaching is and accomplishes. At the same time, Radner says some wild stuff. He says that Napoleon is referenced in Scripture.1 He says that
Radner on Preaching 1: Why Radner? (opens the original)
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Over the past couple of years I’ve figured out what this Substack is actually for—or at least what I enjoy most about it: it’s a venue for processing the stuff I find most interesting, until I understand it. That’s what the Jenson-on-preaching series was. Now I want to do the same thing with Ephraim Radner, specifically his doctrine of Scripture, and specifically-specifically his book, Time and the Word.There’s a problem, though: Radner is really confusing. Not confusing the way a bad writer is
Jenson on Preaching 7: Preaching from the Future (opens the original)
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It’s time to wrap the Jenson on preaching series. This is a kind of summary conclusion where I restate my main takeaways and offer 2 ways—beyond these summary points—that Jenson’s fundamental orientation to the task of theology+preaching has shaped my understandingThe difference Jenson has made for meMost preachers inherit a sense of what they’re trying to do when they preach. For most of the evangelical world I grew up in, the aim was something like: say what the text says (note: typically not
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