Aaron Renn of The Masculinist invited me to join him for a livestreamed conversation yesterday. We started off with a discussion of how to learn from the Bible’s teaching about gender and then got into a host of other questions.

Who Are James Jordan’s Influences?

September 1, 2019 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ Leave a comment

Who are Jim Jordan’s sources? It would obviously be fair to describe him as “innovative”, but it seems very much that there’s a chain where you have followed on from Peter Leithart, who followed on from Jim… but where did Jim learn his hermeneutic? Is he really so innovative an expositor that we can’t read what he’s read and see where he learned it all?

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Daily Quiet Time

August 21, 2019 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ 1 Comment

Evangelicals have been enamored with the “quiet time” of daily Bible reading and prayer, but it often seems to be focused on reading a chapter quickly, avoiding eisegesis as best as possible, and then praying through a short list. Do you have any thoughts on the typical approach to “quiet times”? Is “devotional” reading of Scripture different for you than other times you read scripture during the day? How does that connect to prayer? Thanks for your thoughts.

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Theopolis Podcast: How to Read the Bible Typologically

June 29, 2019 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ Leave a comment

This is the second of my talks on reading the Bible, which I recently delivered in Twin Cities area. You can listen to the first here.

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Theopolis Podcast: How to Read the Bible

June 21, 2019June 21, 2019 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ 1 Comment

I recently had the privilege of spending a few days in the Twin Cities area, where I delivered a series of talks on the subject of reading the Bible. The following is the first evening’s talks and subsequent questions and answers.