Hermeneutics and narrative

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Why we need a sort of Pentecostal eschatology today 11 Jul 2023
Why theology is of no use to us now 29 Jun 2023
The New Historicism and the narrative-historical method 1 Jun 2023
The inversion of the Easter week stories diagrammatised 6 Apr 2023
The two meanings of Easter and what they tell us about the mission of the church today 4 Apr 2023
New CBQ article: the fullness of time and the present evil age 30 Mar 2023
Is John Walton right about the “codependent transactionalism” of the people who built the tower of Babel? 20 Feb 2023
A trinitarian hermeneutic and how it breaks the New Testament narrative 6 Feb 2023
Biblical hermeneutics and the destabilising of the world 15 Nov 2022
Not sure about the charts: please explain… 13 May 2022
Defying history: the future of the church in a Third World Culture 2 May 2022
A narrative missiology and where it gets us 15 Mar 2022
Is there any hope of redemption in Genesis 1-11? 31 Jan 2022
What is the essence of Christianity? 12 Oct 2021
Why the narrative-historical method is not a suppression of theology 3 Aug 2021
The Passion Translation. But really the problem is… 10 Jun 2021
Making Jesus small again 14 May 2021
Answers to questions about hermeneutics, history, and hell 24 Apr 2021
How “liberal” is the narrative-historical method? 14 Apr 2021
Review of Jennifer Butler’s Who Stole My Bible? 17 Mar 2021
An addendum to my defence of a narrative-historical perspective on European Christendom 9 Mar 2021
In defence of a narrative-historical perspective on European Christendom 8 Mar 2021
Our multi-storied theological universe 6 Feb 2021
Now available! Hell and Heaven in Narrative Perspective (second edition) 12 Jan 2021
Progressive Christianity and the narrative-historical method 8 Jan 2021
The ends of the ages: church in the Anthropocene 21 Oct 2020
“The Lord said to my lord….” Did Jesus indulge in prosopological exegesis of the Old Testament? 28 Jul 2020
Should evangelicals be reading the signs of the times? 17 Jun 2020
A great and terrible day of the Lord? 8 Jun 2020
The deity of Jesus, the war against Rome, and theology (of the cross) as a hermeneutical tool 6 May 2020
Answers to questions about the narrative-historical method 24 Apr 2020
The gospel is changing, but there’s still some way to go 21 Apr 2020
Kingdom come and gone: is Jesus all he’s cracked up to be? 17 Apr 2020
Paul’s narrative world: roughly why I disagree with N.T. Wright about the meaning of “propitiation by his blood” 10 Apr 2020
Review of Steve Chalke’s The Lost Message of Paul, part 2: a digression 25 Mar 2020
The ancient narrative in which we are surprised to find ourselves 6 Mar 2020
New book out: End of Story? Same-Sex Relationships and the Narratives of Evangelical Mission 30 Nov 2019
Review of Matthew Bates, Gospel Allegiance: the ten events of the gospel allegiance creed 20 Nov 2019
Are Ignatius and Irenaeus reliable interpreters of Romans 1:3? 6 Nov 2019
From theology to history: Oliver Crisp on the temptations of the Christ 29 Oct 2019