The Canon and Theology Student Group is hosting a discussion forum on Tuesday, April 27 from 7-8:30pm in Eitel Auditorium on the topic of “Canonical Conversations”. Our guest will be Dr. Stephen Chapman, Associate Professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School, who will be entertaining questions from Dr. Tracy McKenzie, Assistant Professor of Old Testament at SEBTS. The event is free and open to the public; please note, however, that space is limited. Registration is not required, but if you would like to reserve your spot you can do so by emailing canonicaltheology@gmail.com.
Where does this author place the locus of revelation? Is he correct? Why or why not?
“At the heart of our concern in biblical theology is the progressive revelation that provides us with the data for theology. Evangelical biblical theology accepts that Jesus and the apostles got it right and that the Scriptures give us a true and faithful account of this revelation.”
We want to start the discussion back up after a winter break with a couple of quotes and questions:
1. The first quote is from Desmond Alexander’s From Eden to the New Jerusalem: An Introduction to Biblical Theology – “The Anthology (the Bible) itself, which abounds in intertextual references, provides most of the literary context within which its contents may be understood. There is not a book within the whole collection that can be interpreted satisfactorily in isolation from the rest. Each book contributes something special to the meta-story and, in turn, the meta-story offers a framework within which each book may be best interpreted. In this regard, the long standing principle of interpreting Scripture by Scripture makes considerable practical sense” (10).
-Here’s the question: Which word doesn’t fit in this paragraph, given a compositional approach to authorship?
2. The second quote comes from Charles Scobie, The Ways of Our God – “Studies of individual books of the Bible or of biblical authors (the Deuteronomist, Second Isaiah, Paul, John, and so on) are often regarded as studies in ‘biblical theology’. Such studies are not really ‘biblical’ unless the study of the book or author concerned is related to the total biblical context; in practice this is rarely the case” (79).
Taken together with the Alexander quote, the second question is this: is it legitimate to consider a book’s message independent of any relationship or association with the rest of the canon?
Greetings,
Registration is now closed for the Luncheon with Dr. Vanhoozer. There will be some seats as well as standing room, so please come and join us even if you didn’t register.
The Luncheon will take place in the Multi-purpose room, 2nd floor of the Ledford center at 11:30am.
If you would like to ask a question of Dr. Vanhoozer, feel free to post it here and we will try to fit it in the Q&A.
Below are the notes from our October meeting. You should be able to download these as a PDF.
We are also trying to get audio of the first two meetings posted as well.
The Order of the Canon
UPDATE: We will be leaving from the seminary at 6:30 pm tonight for anyone that wants to follow us to Dr. McKenzie’s house.
The Canon and Theology group will be meeting at Dr. Tracy McKenzie’s home this coming Monday, October 26th, at 7pm.
The topic will be “The External and Internal Evidence for the Order of the Hebrew Bible.”
If you would like to attend and need directions, please email us at Canonical Theology.
We hope to see you there.
-MYE
Here are the notes from our Monday meeting. These are in rough form, but you should get the general idea.
The topic was “What we mean by Canonical Theology.”
We hope to see you at our next meeting on October 26th.
-JC
Continue reading 'Meeting Notes'»
The Canon and Theology group will be meeting at Dr. Steve McKinion’s home, this evening at 7pm.
The topic will be “What we mean by Canonical Theology.”
If you would like to attend and need directions, please email us at Canonical Theology.
We hope to see you there.
-JC
We are pleased to announce the formation of the Canon and Theology student group at SEBTS. We hope this group will foster discussion and learning in the areas of Biblical and Canonical theology. We hope this group will give more opportunities for students and faculty to interact on these issues outside the classroom.
Please note our meeting times here as well as our major event, a luncheon with Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer, here.
We are blessed to have Dr. Robert Cole (Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Semitic languages at SEBTS) as a guest contributor today at Considering the Canon. He has recently completed his sabbatical and has submitted a report on the Psalter to the faculty. We are very fortunate to have an abbreviated portion of his report. Thank you, Dr. Cole! –Jonathan Catanzaro Continue reading 'Introducing the Introduction of the Psalter'»
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