Tag: Bible as literature
-
Tough Questions for Thinking Faith
Why is there still an ongoing feud between “the creationists” and “the evolutionists”? I know there is one. I know that some people are deeply invested in one side or the other of this argument, to the tune of having written whole books, or built whole expensive and unaccountably popular theme parks down the road…
-
On Reading Revelation “Literally”
Reading Revelation seemed to bring up many more questions or difficulties than usual in our class. These questions seemed to revolve around the problem of “how exactly are we supposed to read this,” which flows into “how exactly are we supposed to read the Bible”? We usually, it seems, assume we’re on the same wavelength…
-
Exegetical Exercise (Acts 8 26-40)
The Uniform Series text for Sunday, August 13 is Acts 8:26-40. These are my notes on the text: This is an amazing text from a literary point of view; and there are a lot of ideas packed into this text-as-literature. Similar and Related Texts: The gospel accounts of the work of John and Baptist and…
Matters of Interpretation 