Posted by Andreas Köstenberger on Feb 27, 2007 in Blog | 16 comments
As you’ve heard, James Cameron, director of the blockbuster movie “Titanic,” is out to sink an even bigger ship—Christianity. He claims that Jesus’ bones and those of his mother, brothers, wife, and child named Jude, were found in ossuaries (bone boxes) in a Jerusalem tomb.
On Larry King Live, Cameron and his collaborator Simcha Jacobovici claimed that they produced a TV documentary (aired on the Discovery Channel) simply in an effort to “report the news” so that people can draw their own conclusion. Yet according to Ben Witherington, Simcha is a practicing, orthodox Jew. Are...
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Posted by Andreas Köstenberger on Feb 9, 2007 in Blog | 2 comments
As part of my role as Director of Ph.D. Studies at Southeastern Seminary, I welcomed Dr. Richard Hays to the campus. Professor Hays is a prolific scholar in the field of NT studies, Jesus studies, Pauline studies, and Christian ethics, to name but a few. He is widely known for his book The Moral Vision of the New Testament, in my view the finest book on the subject, and for his two works on the use of the Old Testament in the New, Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (1989) and The Conversion of the Imagination (2005). The following is an excerpt from my remarks introducing Dr. Hays...
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Posted by Andreas Köstenberger on Feb 2, 2007 in Blog | 2 comments
Few topics are more important than marriage. In a presentation on “Christ, Marriage, and the Church” at Southeastern’s 20/20 Collegiate Conference, I sought to capture the essence of my book God, Marriage, and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation. Here is the outline and main argument of my presentation:
1. The Divinely Revealed Purpose of Marriage (Genesis 1–2)
Equality in essence
Distinct roles
Partnership
Joint dominion
Fruitfulness
2. The Consequences of the Fall on Marriage (Genesis 3)
Loss of innocence
Labor
Relational tension
Struggle for control
3. The...
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