Sivin Kit’s Garden

The Hermeneutics Quiz

I wonder how I will score?

Reading the Bible in a Postmodern Context

Story, Listening, and Discerning ….

Biblical theology and systematic theology

Nice jolt …

…there’s no one-way street from exegesis to dogmatics – the traffic always moves in both directions. And as Bultmann rightly insisted, there can never be a “presuppositionless exegesis,” in which the exegete confronts the text of scripture with a theological blank slate. Theology is always there already – indeed, it’s already inscribed in the texts themselves, and in the whole array of lexical, text-critical and historical tools which are used to translate and interpret these texts. It’s theology all the way down!

Eleven Reasons for Dialogue with People of Other Faiths: Part 1

Eleven Reasons for Dialogue with People of Other Faiths: Part 2

Timely.

Theology highlights of 2007

Good starter list