In this dissertation I argue that discourse analysis, when applied at the level of whole texts, provides a more precise and theologically illuminating account of Scripture than clause-level exegesis alone. Using the Book of Esther as a test case, it demonstrates…
God the Son incarnate can neither be divided in the first and second table of the Decalogue nor in the two kingdoms; rather he delegates different forms of governance to civil and ecclesial authorities.
The Galatian believers, therefore, are not in a conflict similar to Isaac. They are in the same conflict as Isaac—the cosmic conflict. In order to receive their inheritance and stand in their freedom, they also must obey Sarah’s protective command and cast out the false teachers.
Through these textual and theological similarities in oneness/union grammar, sanctification, and the role of the Holy Spirit, Johannine oneness refers to the same reality as Pauline union.
This dissertation offers the first dedicated study of Booth’s doctrine of sanctification and its undergirding confessional context.
The discipline of biblical theology makes as its object the intended meaning of the biblical authors as revealed in the canon of Scripture. The contents of the Bible were written down by inspired human authors (2 Pet 1:21) in many…