Bible index

Use this page to search for posts that deal at some length with particular Bible passages. New Testament books are listed first. Only books and chapters with linked content are listed. Selecting the book will update the chapters list.

Philippians
2:6-11 The “Christ hymn”: true humanity or true kingship?
2:6 In the form of a god: the anarthrous genitive construction
2:6 Stone Chapel podcast with David Capes
2:6-11 What do we mean when we say that Jesus is Lord?
2:6-2:11 Jesus is Lord (still)
2:7 Christmas according to St Paul
2:8-11 The name which is above every name: Philippians 2:8-11 as a meditation on Psalm 137 LXX
2:9-11 Theosis and the supposedly cruciform God
2:9-11 What was the name which is above every name?
2:9-11 Every knee shall bow: the question about Jesus and God
2:9-11 Does Paul say that every tongue will “acknowledge” Jesus as YHWH?
2:10-11 Is Jesus Yahweh? Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess…
2:12-13 How, why and when to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling
3:2-11 Getting the mission of the church “right”: the whole point of justification
3:5 Paul’s former life in “Judaism”—whatever that was
3:8-11 How does Paul fill up what is lacking of Christ’s sufferings?
3:9-10 The shortfall in Christ’s sufferings: mystical union, messianic woes, the hardships of evangelism, or none of the above?
3:10-3:11 Who is being transformed into the image of Christ? Not me
3:20-21 Is there a divine-identity christology in Philippians 3:20-21?
Colossians
1:13-20 Is there such a thing as the “Cosmic Christ”?
1:13 The conceptual framework of Romans: salvation history or apocalyptic?
1:13-14 Kingdom texts that don’t fit the paradigm?
1:15-17 There are two Trinities in the New Testament and they are not the immanent and economic Trinities
1:15-20 In him dwells all the fullness of what is divine bodily. What’s that all about?
1:19 The reconciliation of “all things” by the blood of his cross
1:19 In him dwells all the fullness of what is divine bodily. What’s that all about?
1:20 J. Richard Middleton on salvation and the restoration of all things
1:24 How Paul made up what was lacking in Christ’s afflictions
1:24 The shortfall in Christ’s sufferings: mystical union, messianic woes, the hardships of evangelism, or none of the above?
1:24 What is lacking of the sufferings of Christ in my flesh