Author: Kurt Jaros

On Selective Tone and Labels

Colossians 4:6, “Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.” In my series on understanding the Gospels I have been analyzing the writings of Lydia McGrew, an analytic philosopher with a PhD in English Literature. McGrew has now published a blog post

Craig Keener on John’s Gospel

A few weeks ago I noted my interest in writing a blog series on understanding the Gospels. Specifically of interest to me are the blog postings of Dr. Lydia McGrew, an analytic philosopher, who believes that evangelical New Testament scholarship is by-and-large misguided (to put it nicely). In that introductory post, I noted that not

Temple Cleansing(s?), Flat-Earth, and Authorial Intent

How many times did Jesus cleanse the temple? In the Synoptics, Jesus cleanses the temple later in his ministry (Matthew 21:12-17, Mark 11:15-19, & Luke 19:45-48), but in John the temple is cleansed by Jesus very early in his ministry (John 2:13-16). As far as historical theology goes, Chrysostom (A.D. 349-407) held the dramatic event

McGrew and Evans on Historicity of I Am’s

In yesterday’s episode of Unbelievable? the radio program hosted by Justin Brierley in the historic city of London, England, the topic of the show was on the historicity of the Gospel of John. Normally Brierley pits a Christian vs. a non-Christian on some topic, but yesterday’s program saw two Christians, New Testament scholar Craig A.