Theology Posts

  • February 23, 2010

    The Faith of Jesus Christ, Sprinkle and Bird

    The new book edited by Preston Sprinkle (one of our SAET Fellows) and Michael Bird, The Faith of Jesus Christ: Exegetical, Biblical, and Theological Studies (Hendrickson, 2010) is now available. The book tackles the pistis christou debate, and has a great line-up of contributors. My reading list tends to bounce back and forth between historical/systematic theology and New Testament studies related to justification. I’ve not dug deeply into this …

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    Categories: Preston Sprinkle | SAET Fellow Publications | Theology

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  • January 28, 2010

    Jenson on Prolegomena

    In his Systematic Theology, Vol 1, Robert Jenson (an ecclesial theologian in every sense of the term) discusses the church’s misstep in responding to Enlightenment epistemology.
    “Catholicism met this challenge by building intellectual walls around the church, thus temporarily dropping out of the story we are tracing here. Protestantism first met it by making the doctrine of scriptural authority into an antecedent basis for theology’s claims. Thus traditional natural arguments for the reliability of Scripture came to bear a new load: we may, it was said, believe Christian doctrine because it …

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    Categories: Robert Jenson | Theology

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