Comments on: David Instone-Brewer Responds http://www.biblicalfoundations.org/blog/bible/david-instone-brewer-responds ALERT: Dr. Köstenberger’s blogs are now becoming available in Spanish. We will continue to add new posts as soon as they can be translated. Click on “Espanol” above Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:55:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Charles Costa http://www.biblicalfoundations.org/blog/bible/david-instone-brewer-responds/comment-page-1#comment-82768 Charles Costa Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:20:42 +0000 http://www.biblicalfoundations.org/?p=157#comment-82768 I couldn't agree more with Frank. Dr. IB has done a masterful job in treating the subject. This is evident from the books he has written which includes much of his research. It seems that until we can see the issue of divorce with the eyes of a first century Jew, we cannot quite understand the meaning of Jesus' and Paul's (for Romans) teaching on the matter. The bottom line, whatever teaching Jesus gave on divorce and remarriage is not a license for "no-fault" divorce but has to be congruent with grace. I couldn’t agree more with Frank. Dr. IB has done a masterful job in treating the subject. This is evident from the books he has written which includes much of his research.
It seems that until we can see the issue of divorce with the eyes of a first century Jew, we cannot quite understand the meaning of Jesus’ and Paul’s (for Romans) teaching on the matter.
The bottom line, whatever teaching Jesus gave on divorce and remarriage is not a license for “no-fault” divorce but has to be congruent with grace.

]]> By: Frank http://www.biblicalfoundations.org/blog/bible/david-instone-brewer-responds/comment-page-1#comment-80235 Frank Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:10:39 +0000 http://www.biblicalfoundations.org/?p=157#comment-80235 Just to put my two cents in here, I 'd like to say that after carefully reading Dr. IB's book on this as well as Mr. Piper's response, I really feel Dr. IB has used much sounder hermeneutics in understanding this difficult topic. Mr. Piper has obviously fallen into the traditional snare of embracing a "current day" approach to reading these passages rather than putting them into the context in which they were written. I have yet to see a sounder approach to this topic than what Dr. IB has presented. Just to put my two cents in here, I ‘d like to say that after carefully reading Dr. IB’s book on this as well as Mr. Piper’s response, I really feel Dr. IB has used much sounder hermeneutics in understanding this difficult topic.

Mr. Piper has obviously fallen into the traditional snare of embracing a “current day” approach to reading these passages rather than putting them into the context in which they were written.

I have yet to see a sounder approach to this topic than what Dr. IB has presented.

]]> By: In Brief at 4:14 evangelical christian theology blog http://www.biblicalfoundations.org/blog/bible/david-instone-brewer-responds/comment-page-1#comment-56716 In Brief at 4:14 evangelical christian theology blog Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:48:21 +0000 http://www.biblicalfoundations.org/?p=157#comment-56716 [...] The New Testament on Divorce: A interesting insight into current debate sparked by David Instone-Brewer’s article in Christianity Today. John Piper then responded, followed by this response and follow-up by Andreas Kostenberger. Very roughly speaking, Instone-Brewer considers the NT to encourage grace after a necessary divorce, John Piper believes re-marriage is never right, and Kostenberger takes the middle-ground. Instone-Brewer follows up the debate with some clarification here. [...] [...] The New Testament on Divorce: A interesting insight into current debate sparked by David Instone-Brewer’s article in Christianity Today. John Piper then responded, followed by this response and follow-up by Andreas Kostenberger. Very roughly speaking, Instone-Brewer considers the NT to encourage grace after a necessary divorce, John Piper believes re-marriage is never right, and Kostenberger takes the middle-ground. Instone-Brewer follows up the debate with some clarification here. [...]

]]> By: The Divorce Dialogue Continues « Pastoral Musings http://www.biblicalfoundations.org/blog/bible/david-instone-brewer-responds/comment-page-1#comment-27842 The Divorce Dialogue Continues « Pastoral Musings Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:46:18 +0000 http://www.biblicalfoundations.org/?p=157#comment-27842 [...] Kostenberger   [...] [...] Kostenberger   [...]

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