This is my weekly list of recommendations. You can find daily links at the After Emmaus page on Facebook.
Biblical Studies
John Byron: Defending Our Motives in Ministry: 1 Thess 2:1-7
Tim Gombis: Paul’s Political Gospel, Pt. 1 ; Paul’s Political Gospel, Pt. 2 ; Paul’s Political Gospel, Pt. 3
Mark Goodacre: Gospel of Jesus’ Wife Fragment: the Discussion Continues
Anthony LeDonne: Five Common Fallacies about the Life of Jesus
Bill Mounce: Except for Adultry-Matt 5.32
Andrew Perriman: Does Paul say that Jesus is God in Romans 9:5?
John Walton: Genesis Through Ancient Eyes, Part 1 ; Genesis Through Ancient Eyes, Part 2 ; Genesis Through Ancient Eyes, Part 3 ; Genesis Through Ancient Eyes, Part 4
Andrew Wilson: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say About Human Origins
Christian Theology
Marc Cortez: Difference, Division, and the Image of God
Peter Enns: Inerrancy: If it was good enough for Jesus…
Rachel Held Evans: When our interpretations differ…
C. Michael Patton: The Five Responses to the Problem of Evil
Andrew Perriman: Scot McKnight on the historical Jesus and the Jesus of the church
Ethics
Greg Boyd: Should Christians really use non-violent resistance to things like war/genocide?
Michael J. Gorman: Christians and Politics
Miroslov Volf: Values of a Public Faith: A Contribution to a Conversation
Kurt Willems: The Impossibility of Being President and Following Jesus
Scholarly Journals and Reviews
David Stark: Currents in Biblical Research 11, no 1
Book Reviews
N/A
Other
Peter Enns: Ten Reasons I Don’t Give Up on Fundamentalist (including the not nice ones)
James McGrath: Support for Christopher Rollston: Update
- Chris Heard: Who may rightly defend Chris Rollston?
October 19, 2012 at 9:15 am
The ‘if Jesus believed it…’ argument drives me nuts! My pastor makes is over and over again and never actually deals with the underlying issues. “Well if Jesus believed in a 7 day creation”, “If Jesus believed that there was a real Jonah”, “If Jesus believed…”
I love my church and my pastor. But if I could wave a magic wand, eliminating this argument and allowing women to be ordained and serve as elders would be the first two things I would change.
October 19, 2012 at 9:37 am
Agreed, Jesus’ “beliefs” can be a complicated subject, especially if we take the Kenosis seriously. It becomes very complicated when we ponder what Jesus thought of anthropology, cosmology, and a variety of other matters. Funny thing is I don’t see anywhere in Jesus’ teachings (as remembered in the Gospels) where women are prevented from what we call ‘ordaining,’ unless one reads Jesus’ selection of twelve male disciples to be part of his inner circle as making that statement. If so, that is quite a stretch!
October 19, 2012 at 9:42 am
Thanks for the link, Brian.
October 19, 2012 at 9:43 am
You’re welcome!