I recently had the privilege of a conversation with Jonathan Pageau, the Orthodox artist, speaker, and YouTuber who runs The Symbolic World. I’ve been an appreciative follower of Pageau’s work for some time now—his brother Matthieu’s work on biblical symbolism is also superb—so it was wonderful to speak more directly.
Category: Scripture
What is the Centre of Biblical Theology?
What do you believe to be the centre of Biblical Theology? I’ve seen that there are many different ideas, what’s yours?
Let the Word of Christ Dwell in You Richly … in Psalms?
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” Colossians 3:16
Why is the form of the psalms theologically important?
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Can You Make This Idea A Reality?
I have shared my desire to start a podcast with reflections upon the daily readings from the Morning Prayers of the ACNA’s new Book of Common Prayer. However, I have a more challenging and exciting form of the idea in mind that, with your help, I would LOVE to make a reality. Can you help? If you can, please contact me here.
I Read the Audible Version of First Volume of Hooker Modernization
I am the reader on the Audible version of the first volume of the Davenant Institute’s modernization of Richard Hooker’s Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.
You can purchase a copy here.
Gerald McDermott Interviews Me on How to Read the Bible
My friend Gerald McDermott recently invited me onto his podcast to discuss my work on reading the Bible. You can listen to the episode here. There is also a transcript.
The Biblical™ Brand
A while back I was interviewed by the folks at the Faith Colloquium about the notion of ‘biblical worldview’. The episode has just been released here.
Grammatical Historical Exegesis and a Theopolitan Hermeneutic
What differences would you highlight when comparing the Theopolitan Hermeneutic and a traditional grammatical-historical approach? Also, would you make any significant distinctions between the Theopolitan Hermeneutic and Iain Provan’s “Seriously Literal” interpretive rubric that he lays out in his latest book The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture? He states that his Seriously Literal approach is “to read [Scripture] in accord with its various, apparent communicative intentions as a collection of texts from the past now integrated into one Great Story, doing justice to such realities as literary convention, idiom, metaphor, and typology or figuration.”
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The Animals and Sacrifice
John Higgins on the Bible as Art
Today I am joined by John Higgins of The Bible is Art YouTube channel to discuss his work, the literary character of Scripture, and the book of Proverbs.
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