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Is the Shema really so important for understanding “one God… one Lord” in 1 Corinthians 8:6? (16 May. 2013)
Tweaking Richard Bauckham on Jesus and the God of Israel (14 May. 2013)
Jesus as Lord in Mark (24 Apr. 2013)
Good Friday: the death of Jesus in narrative-historical context (28 Mar. 2013)
Jesus is God or Jesus is Lord? (21 Mar. 2013)
When prophecy fails: why do people always assume that Jesus got it wrong? (16 Mar. 2013)
Review: Richard Horsley, The Prophet Jesus and the Renewal of Israel (part 2) (26 Jan. 2013)
Review: Richard Horsley, The Prophet Jesus and the Renewal of Israel (part 1) (21 Jan. 2013)
Jesus as judge of the living and the dead in the Apostolic Fathers (15 Jan. 2013)
The parables: Jesus was just being obtuse (11 Jan. 2013)
The christological narrative of Acts (9 Jan. 2013)
Review: Naomi Alderman, The Liar’s Gospel (29 Dec. 2012)
Some dull but seasonal reflections on the historical context for the fulfilment of the Immanuel prophecy (21 Dec. 2012)
Are Immanuel and Wonderful-Counselor-Mighty-God-Everlasting-Father-Prince-of-Peace the same person? (20 Dec. 2012)
The conception of Jesus, Trinity, and the search for an appropriate metaphysics: it’s nearly Christmas, after all (18 Dec. 2012)
Sweet and Viola’s a-historical kingdom of God (7 Dec. 2012)
The forgiveness of Israel’s sins in Hebrews (4 Dec. 2012)
What do we mean when we say that Jesus is Lord? (1 Nov. 2012)
In the likeness of sinful flesh (25 Oct. 2012)
Does Paul say that Jesus is God in Romans 9:5? (17 Oct. 2012)
Scot McKnight on the historical Jesus and the Jesus of the church (11 Oct. 2012)
Should the church be committed to the mission of Jesus? (2 Aug. 2012)
Wright and the divinity of Jesus (4 May. 2012)
Does the King Jesus gospel breed historical complacency? (30 Apr. 2012)
Brian LePort's ten most difficult doctrinal/theological issues (23 Apr. 2012)
The sinlessness of Jesus (16 Apr. 2012)
The apocalyptic subversion of philosophical Trinitarianism (10 Apr. 2012)
Andrew Sullivan on Jesus (3 Apr. 2012)
What did Jesus fear in Gethsemane? (24 Mar. 2012)
More on the divinity of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels (12 Mar. 2012)
The Holy Spirit 3: This is my beloved Son (21 Feb. 2012)
Tom Wright, the return of Jesus, and the failure of history (6 Feb. 2012)
Why I disagree with Tom Wright about the triumphal entry and divine kingship (29 Jan. 2012)
Christmas now and then (21 Dec. 2011)
Why N.T. Wright's narrative of Jesus is not narrative enough (reflections on the inaugural lecture) (7 Nov. 2011)
The right reason for crying "Abba! Father!" (29 Oct. 2011)
We do not know Jesus if we know him only as a personal saviour (27 Oct. 2011)
Quote: James D.G. Dunn: There is no objective Jesus (13 Oct. 2011)
Jimmy Dunn: one God, one Lord, and the shema (4 Sep. 2011)
Out of Egypt I called my son: the rabbit in the hat trick (24 Jun. 2011)

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Eternal life and the story of Israel I got a question from someone recently asking about the meaning of “eternal life” in the Gospels. He takes it that the expression “age to come” refers to the time after either the collapse of national Israel or the collapse of the pagan...
Resurrection, rapture and relevance Daniel Levy has posed a couple of questions regarding the thesis of The Coming of the Son of Man. Part of my argument in the book is that much of the language of resurrection refers not to a final and general resurrection of the dead but...
The battle between theology and history for the soul of the church: 24 antitheses I keep coming back to this. There are people out there in the church—perhaps not very many—who think more or less the same way that I do. We may not agree on the details or the degree, but we are oriented in roughly the same direction. But...