INDEX - HOW TO READ THE BIBLE
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How Should We Read the Bible?
Benjamin Corey - 5 Things You're Reading When You're Reading the Bible
3/22/17
Choosing the Author Over the Bible Helps the Church See People
3/13/16
10/9/14
Is the Bible like a Compost Pile or a Cookbook?
12/24/12
How the Early Christians Read the Bible
11/30/12
Bible - How to Read the Bible
6/24/12
MissioLife: Scripture Reads You
5/31/12
Bible - Discussions
N.T. Wright - Called to Study and Teach
NT Wright - Introduction to Paul's New Perspective, Part 1 of 2
N.T. Wright, Scripture & the Authority of God - "How to Read Scripture"
5/21/12
N.T. Wright: "Love Is the Name of the Game"
10/18/12
NT Wright on "Scripture and God's Authority"
N.T. Wright, Scripture & the Authority of God - "How to Read Scripture"
5/21/12
N.T. Wright - The Authority of the Bible
Bible - Common Questions of God
How God Came to Be
12/23/19
Brian Zahnd - My Problem with the Bible
12/8/15
Andre Rabe - Questions About the Bible In A Postmodern Era, Parts 1-12
11/18/15
How Are We to Read the Bible? As a Divine Product or Human? Part 2 of 2
3/12/14
How Are We to Read the Bible? As a Divine Product or Human? Part 1 of 2
3/11/14
How Do You Read the Bible? Incarnationally, Inspirationally, Inerrantly, or Inexpertly?
12/13/13
How Narrow or Broad is Your View of Jesus and Scripture?
4/9/13
Bible - Canon of the Bible
Do We Have an Open Bible or a Closed Bible? Or, What Makes an Open Bible Closed?
A Review of the Historic v. Canonical v. Creedal Jesus of the Church
12/22/19
Loving the Bible for what it is, not for what I want it to be
1/3/12
Bible - Interpreting the NT
A Parable of Two Sons and One Father
Do you read scripture like a Pharisee or like Jesus?
Did Jesus Break the Torah? Yes, In Fact, He Encouraged Others To Do So Too!
"Blessed are the Poor": Striving for the Spiritual Non-Possession of Biblical Interpretation
Book Review - Do We Need the New Testament?
8/9/15
Jesus, the Fulfillment of God's Revelation to Man
1/3/12
Bible - Interpreting the NT
A Parable of Two Sons and One Father
Do you read scripture like a Pharisee or like Jesus?
Did Jesus Break the Torah? Yes, In Fact, He Encouraged Others To Do So Too!
Book Review - Do We Need the New Testament?
8/9/15
Jesus, the Fulfillment of God's Revelation to Man
Bible - Interpreting the OT
How to Read the Bible & It's Violence (eg, "Reading the Heart of Jesus")
6/18/20
Greg Boyd - The Crucifixion of the Warrior God (to Biblical Violence)
Confronting Christians with a God of Love or a God of Violence
6/16/16
How Might We Interpret the OT for Today?
A Christian Message to the Violent Reading of the Bible
12/21/15
Book Review by Peter Enns - "Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither"
5/28/15
How to Read The Old Testament in Light of the New Testament
5/18/15
How to Read the Bible like the young Psalmist (Psalm 119)
7/15/14
Book Review: Genesis for Normal People
4/25/12
Bible - The New Hermenuetic of Love
How to Read the Bible - A New Hermeneutic, Part 7
8/31/20
How to Read the Bible - A New Hermeneutic, Part 6
8/29/20
How to Read the Bible - A New Hermeneutic, Part 5
8/29/20
How To Read the Bible - A New Hermeneutic, Part 4
8/29/20
How To Read the Bible - A New Hermeneutic, Part 3
8/29/20
How To Read the Bible - A New Hermeneutic, Part 2
8/29/20
How To Read the Bible - A New Hermeneutic, Part 1
8/29/20
How To Read The Bible - A New Hermeneutic, Parts 1-6
8/16/20
How Catholics Read the Bible, Part 1 - What is Revelation?
9/14/20
How Catholics Read the Bible, Part 2 - Are There Mistakes in the Bible?
9/14/20
How Catholics Read the Bible, Part 3 - Biblical Inerrancy for Catholics
9/14/2020
Bible - Questions of Faith
Listening & Understanding - "Why I Don't Follow God Anymore", Part 2
Listening & Understanding - "Why I Don't Follow God Anymore", Part I
Bible - Reading the Bible Critically
Confessions of an Ex-Apologist: "In Defense of Why I Left My Calling"
Biblical Authority & Incarnation vs. Analytic Theology
5 Approaches to Biblical Theology (Barr, Carson, Wright, Childs, Watson)
11/26/12
Accepting the Complexity and Ambiguity Inherent in Scripture, Part 2
4/17/12
Accepting the Complexity and Ambiguity Inherent in Scripture, Part 1
4/16/12
Bible - The Error of Christian Biblicism
Does God Care About the Bible As Much As We Do?
Creating Beliefs from Biblical Texts Not Meant To Teach Those Beliefs
Blinded to the Real Issues
Biblical Docetism - The Dangers of Reading the Bible Literally
Biblical Hermeneutics in a Post-Truth Culture
1/25/17
Allowing Biblical Narrative to Rise Above Bibliolatry
3/7/13
8/16/11
Bible - Interpreting the Bible
Michael Graves: The Early Church Father's Many Methods of Interpretation of the Bible
Michael Graves: The Early Church Father's Many Methods of Interpretation of the Bible
Bible - The Importance of Biblical Hermeneutics/Interpretation
Book Review: Merold Westphal's Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church
Review: Christian Smith - The Bible Made Impossible, Part 9
Review: Christian Smith - The Bible Made Impossible, Part 8
Review: Christian Smith - The Bible Made Impossible, Parts 6 and 7
Review: Christian Smith - The Bible Made Impossible, Parts 4 and 5
Review: Christian Smith - The Bible Made Impossible, Part 3
Review: Christian Smith - The Bible Made Impossible, Parts 1 and 2
Christian Smith - Introduction: The Bible Made Impossible
Bible - Historical Criticism
Biblical History is Actually Biblical Story Telling in the Bible
2/10/19
Biblical Interpretation - History v. Theology
Bible - Literary Types
Book Review: The Lost World of Scripture, by Walton and Sandy, Parts 1-3
"Is the Bible True" or "Is The Bible a Collection of Myths?"
4/16/15
Can God speak through myth?
7/17/12
Bible - Reading the Bible Theologically
I. Howared Marshall - Father of Open Theism
12/17/15
Bible - Textual Criticism
First Impressions of the NIV Cultural Background Study Bible
Difficulties in Translating the Bible: ESV Video Session
An April Fool's Joke - Archaeologists Find Q
4/3/16
2/21/14
Bible - The Bible v. The Church
Deconstructing "Evangelicalsim"
How Orthodox Beliefs and Modern Biblical Scholarship Might Reconcile
4/1/14
Bible - The Bible, Culture & Politics
God's Word Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow
?7/9/16
Fictitious Evangelical Arguments Against Evolution That Aren't Helpful
Desperately Seeking Biblical Relevancy (DSBR)
David Congdon - No, The American Church is Not in Exile
Bible - Women of the Bible
Imaginatively Re-Inventing the Stories of Women in the Bible
1/11/12
My JEDP Observations of Biblical Cultural Preservation
Nazarenes Reject Strict Inerrancy in Favor of Soteriological Inerrancy of the Bible
One Bible, Two Testaments
Participatory Revelation in Process of Transformation (Or, Why Inerrancy Isn't All That)
Paul Tillich, The Protestant Principle, and Interpretive Doubt vs. Religious Authoritarianism
Peter Enns - "Five Views of Inerrancy," Part 2b - Peter Enns Responds
Peter Enns - Historical Criticism and Evangelicalism: An Uneasy Relationship
7/2/13
Peter Enns - "How Jesus Read His Bible," by Michael Hardin (Parts 1-4) + Videos: A Non-Violent Atonement
Peter Enns - How the Bible Actually Works
Peter Enns - Inerrancy, Historical Criticism, and the Slippery Slope
12/16/14
Peter Enns - Interview: "The Bible Tells Me So"
Peter Enns, "Scripture as a Polyphonic Text has not One, but Many Voices"
11/28/13
Peter Enns - The Bible as a "Human Book"
Pete Enns - The Evolution of Adam, Parts 1, 2, 3
Peter Enns: "The Problem of Inerrancy for Evangelicalism"
11/27/13
Pete Enns - Why "Original Author" [Theory] is Overrated
3/10/17
Popular False Claims About Biblical Scholarship & Historical Criticism
1/11/13
Reacting to the Virgin Birth of Mary and the Virgin Conception of Jesus
Rebecca Trotter - A New Fundamentalism
Reconciling Contemporary Christian Ethics with Social Justice in the OT
Refusing a Contemporary form of Paleo-Christianity, Part 2
Refusing a Contemporary form of Paleo-Christianity, Part 1
Rethinking Biblical Stories: "Is Jonah (and the Whale) Satire or History?"
11/8/13
Reviews of Konrad Schmid's "A Literary History of the Old Testament" - How the OT was Compiled
8/20/13
Roger Wolsey - 16 Ways Progressive Christians Interpret the Bible
Should Christians Resist the Pressure to Interpret the Bible Culturally?
Social Group Theory and the Question of "Whom Did Cain Marry?"
10/29/14
Something to Think About - "Could Moses Write Hebrew?"
9/21/17
Taste and Parody collide with Art and Music
Teaching the Bible in Public Schools - A Post-Evangelical Perspective of the Pros and Cons
5/28/17
Text & Culture - The Relevancy of God's Word to Contemporary Culture
The Authentic Rigor of the Bible as a Literary Narrative of the Ages
8/3/17
The Bible and Evolution, Inerrancy, and Other Matters
9/15/12
The Bible as a "Memory-Narrative" or "Mnemo-Narrative"
8/10/13
The Christian Challenge to Philosophy
6/15/15
The Doctrine of Inerrancy's Oblique Terminology and Virtual Meaninglessness
The Emerging Church and the New Perspective
The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say About Human Origins
2/6/12
The Experience of the Absence of God in the Christian Life
12/19/14
The God of Brokenness: Etherlyn Q. Naiah - Asking for "A New Day of Worship" (a Liberian Gospel Song)
3/6/14
The Historical Context of the Gospel of Mark's Ending
The Infallibility and Multi-Vocality of Scripture
The Jewishness of the Messianic Scriptures
1/16/14
The New Testament
The Old Testament
2/4/14
The Politics of the Bible Both Then and Now
4/6/15
The Politics of Jesus' Death Both Then and Now
4/5/15
The Presence of God in an Open Bible
The Problem of Faith and Religion in Christianity
5/3/14
The Role of Experience in Theology, Parts 1 & 2
The Seeming Incorrigible Perspective of Christian "Blik"
The Value of Asking Difficult Questions & Disturbing the Comfortable to Wrestle Afresh
5/14/12
Thinking Biblically - Its Misuses and Abuses
Translation and Theology - Jesus and the Early Church's Reading of the Greek OT Bible (the Septuagint)
7/2/13
Trying to Imagine the Age of the Bible in Our Contemporary Present
9/7/12
Walter Brueggemann, "The Practice of Prophetic Imagination"
2/15/12
Was the gospel told first to the serpent?
What do we mean by the word Literal?
2/15/12
What is Biblical or Historical Criticism? Part 1 of 3
What Is the Bible? A Good Question that Biblical Inerrancy Can't Answer
3/1/17
What is Theology?
What or Whom Do We Choose? The Bible or Jesus?
What To Do About Bad Theology
9/18/13
When Reading the Bible Learn to Discern Biblical Genre
Why Inerrancy Doesn't Matter
Why Women May Speak, Lead, and Teach in the Church
7/11/20
Working Towards a Biblical Interpretation that is both Relevant and Accurate

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