The Eagle & Child

Another interesting post in Scot McKnight’s “Translation Tribalism” series: I’d like to contend today that most words are translated in all Bible translations with formal equivalence and that some words are translated more or less in a dynamic, or functional way. In other words, there isn’t really a radical commitment to dynamic equivalence — as [...]

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Scot McKnight has started a series of posts on “Translation Tribalism”: 1 and 2 (so far). From the second post: the authority is the original text, not the translation. The original texts are in Hebrew and Aramaic (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament). The authoritative text is not in English, regardless of how accurate the [...]

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Well, this is pathetic, isn’t it?  This blog is going to pot.  Completely. I realized today that one of the reasons I’ve been blogging less lately is because I’ve been preaching more (approximately twice each month for the last couple of months).  Most of my writing energy and time has been directed at preparing and [...]

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A recent post by Scot McKnight gave me pause: Helmut Thielicke, in what has to be one of the finest little (absolutely must-have) books ever written for those in school and considering pastoring or a teaching ministry, A Little Exercise for Young Theologians, said something like this some where in that book: “During the period [...]

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