Does Progressive Revelation Still Progress? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Reliability
Greg & Dan consider whether we might find a New NEW Testament. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0762.mp3
Was There and Actual Adam & Eve? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
Greg considers the literal and the symbolic in the story of creation. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0759.mp3
Did God Assist the Israelites in the Violent Battle with the Amalekites? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
Greg keeps his hands in the air as he battles against Old Testament interpretations that portray God as violent. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0748.mp3
When Do Bible Characters Become Historically Real People? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
Topic: Historical characters. Genre: Mind-Bending Historical Analysis. Players: Greg Boyd & Dan Kent (both real) http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0746.mp3
Please Explain the Olive Tree in Romans 11 (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
Greg unpacks a tricky passage. Dan feverishly takes notes. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0739.mp3
The Flood Through a Cruciform Lens (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
Greg considers the flood story in light of the cross. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0737.mp3
How is the Bible “God-Breathed”?
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Bible Interpretation, Cross, Cruciform Theology, Inspiration, Jesus
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
The historic-orthodox church has always confessed that all canonical writings are “God-breathed” (1 Tim 3:16). But what exactly does this mean? How could God guarantee that the writings that his “breathing” produces are precisely what…
Podcast: Has Greg ‘Gone Liberal’ in His Cruciform Hermeneutic?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Hermeneutics
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
Greg consoles a disappointed fan and discusses Cruciform Hermeneutics. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0365.mp3
Jesus and the “Eye for an Eye” Command: A Response to Paul Copan (#10)
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Enemy Love, Non-Violence, Paul Copan
Topics: Attributes and Character, Biblical Interpretation
Verse: Matthew 5
As I noted in my 9th response to Paul Copan’s critique of Crucifixion of the Warrior God (CWG), Copan argues that Jesus merely repudiated wrong applications of OT laws in his sermon on the mount,…
Jesus Repudiates OT Commands on Oath-Taking: A Response to Paul Copan (#9)
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Jesus, New Testament, Old Testament
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
In his critique of Crucifixion of the Warrior God (CWG), Paul Copan argues that “Boyd pushes too hard to make Jesus’ teaching appear more revolutionary than it really is” [italics original]. Whereas I argue that…
Reinterpreting the Law, Violence and Nationalism of the OT
Category: General
Tags: Law, Nationalism, Old Testament, OT Violence
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
The law of the OT was intended to serve a negative object lesson. This finds its clearest expression in Paul. To begin, Paul interpreted Jesus’ death on the cross largely in sacrificial and substitutionary terms….
Jesus, the Word of God
Category: General
Tags: Bible Interpretation, Cruciform Theology, Jesus
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
“[T]he standing message of the Fathers to the Church Universal,” writes Georges Florovsky, was that “Christ Jesus is the Alpha and Omega of the Scriptures both the climax and the knot of the Bible.”[1] It…
Reviewing the Reviews: Tom Belt (Part 2)
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Tom Belt
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
In my previous post I reviewed Tom’s critical review of volume 1 of CWG, and in this post I’d like to do the same for his critical review of volume 2. As he did in his…
The Problem with Christocentrism
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Christocentrism, Cruciform Theology
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
As we’ve discussed in the previous posts, there has been a growing move toward a Christocentric orientation in theology since Barth, and especially over the last fifty years. I enthusiastically applaud this trend, for I’m…
Overemphasizing Christ?
Category: General
Tags: Christocentrism, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Jesus, Orthodoxy
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
In response to my work, some have argued that I tend to overemphasize Christ. In light of the claim that in Jesus we have the one and only definitive Word of God and that no…
Modern Theologians and the Centrality of Christ
Category: General
Tags: Bible Interpretation, Christocentrism, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Theology
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
During the twentieth century the development of a Christocentric reading of the Scriptures—which is crucial to understanding what I argue in Crucifixion of the Warrior God—surged in the wake of Karl Barth’s publication of his…
Early Anabaptists and the Centrality of Christ
Category: General
Tags: Anabaptists, Cruciform Theology, Menno Simons
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
In a previous post, I wrote about the Christocentric interpretation of the Scriptures espoused by the magisterial Reformers, specifically Luther and Calvin. Their hermeneutic was focused on the work and the offices of Christ, but…
Reviewing the Reviews: Rob Grayson (Faith Meets World)
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Reviews, Rob Grayson
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
Well folks, Crucifixion of the Warrior God (CWG) has been out three weeks and it’s already in its third printing! That blows me away! Thank you!! We’re already getting deeply moving testimonies of how this…
Divine Accommodation in the Early Church
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Revelation
Topics: Attributes and Character, Biblical Interpretation
One of the basic points made in The Crucifixion of the Warrior God is that the Old Testament reveals how God adjusts his revelation and instructions to accommodate the weakness of his covenant people. This…
The Entire Old Testament is About Jesus
Category: General
Tags: Bible Interpretation, Cruciform Theology, Old Testament
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
Jesus himself taught that he carried more authority than any prophet that predated him. Though Jesus regarded John as the greatest prophet up to himself (Matt 11:11), he claimed his own “testimony” was “weightier (megas)…