{"id":1158,"date":"2010-04-10T05:36:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T12:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2010-04-10T05:36:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T12:36:31","slug":"the-end-of-reformed-evangelical-biblical-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2010\/04\/10\/the-end-of-reformed-evangelical-biblical-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Reformed Evangelical Biblical Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Euangelion, Mike Bird writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/euangelizomai.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/end-of-reformed-evangelical-ot-scholars.html\">the &#8220;end&#8221; of Reformed evangelical Biblical scholarship<\/a>.\u00a0 Mike is keen observer, and this is a sobering post.\u00a0 For those who aren&#8217;t up on these things, the venerable Bruce Waltke resigned from Reformed Theological Seminary after a dust-up over his video on faith and science was posted on BioLogos (the video has since been removed).\u00a0 In Mike Bird&#8217;s words, the <em>&#8220;trend is what I simply have to call a Fundamentalist Resurgence in what were once historical Evangelical Denominations and Institutions.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mike is absolutely right, I think, in this assessment:\u00a0 <em>&#8220;The job of Christian professors is not to tell the laity what they want to hear (whether that&#8217;s on healthcare or science or Bible versions), but to assist students, pastors, and churches to have a &#8220;faith seeking understanding&#8221; and to help bridge the academy and church divide.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, as Mike notes, in some institutions it seems that the only approach to Biblical scholarship involves <em>&#8220;bowing before Systematic and Historical Theologians and allowing them to dictate the proper relationship of Ancient Near Eastern literature to the Old Testament, to determine the limitations of Science for explaining Creation narratives, to establish the proper meaning of Semitic and oriental languages, to legislate the sources and authorship and date of all Old Testament writings, and to state the proper significance of archaeological evidence relating to biblical places and persons.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mike asks, rhetorically and literally: \u00a0 &#8220;<em>who wants to do that?&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Euangelion, Mike Bird writes about the &#8220;end&#8221; of Reformed evangelical Biblical scholarship.\u00a0 Mike is keen observer, and this is a sobering post.\u00a0 For those who aren&#8217;t up on these things, the venerable Bruce Waltke resigned from Reformed Theological Seminary after a dust-up over his video on faith and science was posted on BioLogos (the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-studies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-iG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}