March 23, 2010
Humpty-Dumpty, of course, famously used words to mean what he chose to mean, irrespective of how other people used them. I sometimes feel like that when reading John Hobbins’ blog. Today he writes at length (twice) defending himself from james McGrath’s claim that in his use of Scripture he’s a liberal. I have increasingly come [...]
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December 8, 2009
I’m not sure (pace James McGrath) that Ken’s comments today make him a liberal. It’s quite reasonable to criticise people for poor scholarship and arguments. I think that Piper’s riposte to Wright, for example, thoroughly deserves any excoriation that comes its way. After all, Piper rejects any use of Second Temple Judaism as a context [...]
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