For Pip: A short history of the Old Testament
Recently my daughter asked me what I knew about the history of the Bible—not history in the Bible, but how the Bible came to be written down, how it was put together, and how it reached us. So this post and the next are dedicated to you, Pip. And I soon realised that I didn’t […]
Old Testament violence: Greg Boyd
A review of Gregory S. Boyd, 2017, Cross vision: How the crucifixion of Jesus makes sense of Old Testament violence (Minneapolis: Fortress). Shortly before this book was published, Greg Boyd published a massive two-volume scholarly work, The crucifixion of the warrior God: Interpreting the Old Testament’s violent portraits of God in light of the Cross […]
The problem of evil: Greg Boyd
A layperson’s review of Gregory S. Boyd, Satan and the problem of evil: Constructing a trinitarian warfare theodicy. Downers Grove IL: IVP Academic (2001). Why I read this book I believe that God is sovereign and has everything under his control. I believe that he determines the future. And yet I still ask him to do […]