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Is the Shema really so important for understanding “one God… one Lord” in 1 Corinthians 8:6? (16 May. 2013)
Tweaking Richard Bauckham on Jesus and the God of Israel (14 May. 2013)
Jesus as Lord in Mark (24 Apr. 2013)
Good Friday: the death of Jesus in narrative-historical context (28 Mar. 2013)
Jesus is God or Jesus is Lord? (21 Mar. 2013)
When prophecy fails: why do people always assume that Jesus got it wrong? (16 Mar. 2013)
Review: Richard Horsley, The Prophet Jesus and the Renewal of Israel (part 2) (26 Jan. 2013)
Review: Richard Horsley, The Prophet Jesus and the Renewal of Israel (part 1) (21 Jan. 2013)
Jesus as judge of the living and the dead in the Apostolic Fathers (15 Jan. 2013)
The parables: Jesus was just being obtuse (11 Jan. 2013)
The christological narrative of Acts (9 Jan. 2013)
Review: Naomi Alderman, The Liar’s Gospel (29 Dec. 2012)
Some dull but seasonal reflections on the historical context for the fulfilment of the Immanuel prophecy (21 Dec. 2012)
Are Immanuel and Wonderful-Counselor-Mighty-God-Everlasting-Father-Prince-of-Peace the same person? (20 Dec. 2012)
The conception of Jesus, Trinity, and the search for an appropriate metaphysics: it’s nearly Christmas, after all (18 Dec. 2012)
Sweet and Viola’s a-historical kingdom of God (7 Dec. 2012)
The forgiveness of Israel’s sins in Hebrews (4 Dec. 2012)
What do we mean when we say that Jesus is Lord? (1 Nov. 2012)
In the likeness of sinful flesh (25 Oct. 2012)
Does Paul say that Jesus is God in Romans 9:5? (17 Oct. 2012)
Scot McKnight on the historical Jesus and the Jesus of the church (11 Oct. 2012)
Should the church be committed to the mission of Jesus? (2 Aug. 2012)
Wright and the divinity of Jesus (4 May. 2012)
Does the King Jesus gospel breed historical complacency? (30 Apr. 2012)
Brian LePort's ten most difficult doctrinal/theological issues (23 Apr. 2012)
The sinlessness of Jesus (16 Apr. 2012)
The apocalyptic subversion of philosophical Trinitarianism (10 Apr. 2012)
Andrew Sullivan on Jesus (3 Apr. 2012)
What did Jesus fear in Gethsemane? (24 Mar. 2012)
More on the divinity of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels (12 Mar. 2012)
The Holy Spirit 3: This is my beloved Son (21 Feb. 2012)
Tom Wright, the return of Jesus, and the failure of history (6 Feb. 2012)
Why I disagree with Tom Wright about the triumphal entry and divine kingship (29 Jan. 2012)
Christmas now and then (21 Dec. 2011)
Why N.T. Wright's narrative of Jesus is not narrative enough (reflections on the inaugural lecture) (7 Nov. 2011)
The right reason for crying "Abba! Father!" (29 Oct. 2011)
We do not know Jesus if we know him only as a personal saviour (27 Oct. 2011)
Quote: James D.G. Dunn: There is no objective Jesus (13 Oct. 2011)
Jimmy Dunn: one God, one Lord, and the shema (4 Sep. 2011)
Out of Egypt I called my son: the rabbit in the hat trick (24 Jun. 2011)

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What is lacking of the sufferings of Christ in my flesh This verse was alluded to briefly by Peter Wilkinson in a comment relating to the place of suffering in Paul’s thought. My view is that the suffering of the early church, culminating potentially in a death like Jesus’, plays a much more...
The history of biblical interpretation—a tale of two cities The history of biblical interpretation is a tale of two cities—not London and Paris (Dickens), or even Jerusalem and Athens (Tertullian), but Alexandria and Antioch. In the third and fourth centuries Alexandria stood for an allegorizing...
The Future of the People of God: Reading Romans Before and After Western Christendom [The Kindle edition is now available.]I have just noticed that The Future of the People of God: Reading Romans Before and After Western Christendom is now available on the Wipf and Stock website (also available on Amazon). I haven’t...