Biblical Theology

The Westminster Confession of Faith: Adoption

Apr 6, 2016

All the benefits of redemption are found in Jesus Christ. While Phillip Melanchthon, Martin Luther’s colleague and heir apparent, said “To know Christ is to know his benefits.” We could just as rightly say to know Christ’s benefits one must know Christ himself. Adoption is one of those benefits...

The Climactic Word - Transfigured Hermeneutics 6

Alastair Roberts

Mar 16, 2016

This is the sixth of a ten part treatment of the significance of the Transfiguration for Christian theology and biblical reflection. I am currently exploring the way in which the Transfiguration draws upon associations with the events of the Exodus and Mount Sinai and upon broader Old Testament...

The High Priest and the New Temple: Transfigured Hermeneutics 5

Alastair Roberts

Feb 26, 2016

This is the fifth of a multipart discussion of the importance of the event of the Transfiguration for Christian theology and biblical reflection. I have argued for illuminating parallels between the events of Sinai and that of the Transfiguration. My previous two posts explored the gospels'...

Transfigured Hermeneutics 4 - Jesus as God's Glory Face in John's Gospel

Alastair Roberts

Feb 1, 2016

This is the fourth part of a multipart discussion of the importance of the event of the Transfiguration for Christian theology and biblical reflection. In my first three posts, I argued for the significance accorded to the Transfiguration by its location within the narrative structure of the gospel...

The New Testament's Use of the Old Testament: Worship Like a Child and With Your Children - Christ's Use of Psalm 8:2 in Matthew 21:16

Grant Van Leuven

Dec 26, 2015

In church, do you swagger with solemnity? Does a heavy countenance fall like a cloud over your pew? Are you so austere in worship that the children and babes in Christ near you know they best keep their mouths shut? In Matthew 21, the chief priests and scribes prove to be God’s enemies by not...

The New Testament's Use of the Old Testament: David Rejoiced in His Son's Resurrection:Peter's Typological Use of Psalm 16 in Acts 2

Grant Van Leuven

Dec 25, 2015

I once saw a sobering reminder of our mortality and need for the Son of David. A missionary shared his video of a dead Jamaican man lying in a simple wooden box in a walk-in freezer. Another man hammered nails into the box’s top as casually as one might prepare freight for shipping. The dead man...

The New Testament's Use of the Old Testament: A Seed Coming to Blossom

Tim Bertolet

Dec 23, 2015

The New Testament primarily uses the Old Testament to show that God is bringing his promises to fulfillment. God’s history of revelation and redemption comes to a climax in a manner that is continuous with the Old. When we think of the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament there are a...

The New Testament's Use of the Old Testament: He Considered that God was Able

Jeffrey Waddington

Dec 21, 2015

The Bible has many human authors. It has one divine author. If only the first statement were true we would not be surprised to find disagreements and inconsistencies between authors. But because the second sentence is true we find that the many human writers are in harmony and consistency with one...

The New Testament's Use of the Old Testament: The Foundation

David Smith

Dec 17, 2015

One of the most important interpretive questions with which we have to wrestle as we seek to understand the Bible is: How are the Old and New Testament (OT...