Tuesday, March 10, 2009

SWNID Answers: Whaddya Think of Rob Bell?

Commonly asked the question that titles this post, we can now refer our gentle readers to an article that answers as we would.

At Books & Culture, Wheaton NT prof Gary Burge celebrates NT scholar Kenneth Bailey, whose work provides an exceptional example, in Burge's view and ours, of the way that cultural data illuminates the biblical text. Burge is mostly writing about Bailey, who ought to be more widely appreciated.

Meanwhile, Burge begins and ends his article with a reflection on a certain popular, black-tee-shirt-clad preacher, who spoke at his campus's chapel some years ago, a speaker who made copious reference to cultural material that was anachronistic or inaccurate. We know who that is, and gentle readers will too.

So we like Bailey and are not so hep on that other guy.

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