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What is Biblical Theology Exactly?

This is an excerpt from a book I am working on. As any reader is aware who has ventured into the literature on Biblical Theology, there is no one agreed upon way of doing it.  This is the case whether one is reading evangelical writers or the works of non-evangelicals.[1]  Not surprisingly several definitions have Read More

Faith and Reason in Christian Perspective

It appears to me that one of the first things a faithful theologian needs to do is to straighten out the confusion brought about by the world’s separation of faith and reason. This relationship is so vital to a biblically fastened worldview that to neglect it will involve the believer in a host of conflicting Read More

Paul Henebury Responds to Darrell Bock

As previously noted here, I was asked to represent Traditional Dispensationalism for a set of interviews conducted by Lindsay Kennedy.  Two far more noteworthy contributors; Darrell Bock (Progressive Dispensationalism), and James Hamilton (Historic Premillennialism), were also interviewed. After the interviews were completed, each man was given the opportunity to ask one of the others a Read More

Biblical Covenants and Normative Hermeneutics

My concern in this article is to address this phenomenon of prophetic makeover. How can God express Himself in the most forceful language of commitment to Israel and not mean what He is saying (Jer. 31-33)? How can God make a solemn oath to accomplish stipulations which He and no one else has placed upon Himself and proceed to “expand” these stipulations beyond all recognition (Gen. 15)?