Notes
Preface
Revelation 1:8.
Hebrews 13:8.
Series introduction: the Contemporary Christian – the then and the now
Psalm 119:105; cf. 2 Peter 1:19.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, enlarged edn (SCM Press, 1971), p. 279.
Matthew 11:19.
See Jaroslav Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries (Yale University Press, 1985), pp. 182–193.
2 Corinthians 11:4.
2 Timothy 1:15; cf. 4:11, 16.
Acts 26:25.
Ezekiel 2:6–7.
The Bible: introduction
Psalm 19:10
1 Continuing in the Word
2 Thessalonians 2:15.
Hebrews 2:1.
1 John 2:24.
2 John 9.
E.g. 1 Timothy 6:20; 2 Timothy 1:14.
Cf. Mark 1:15; 1 Corinthians 10:11.
E.g. Matthew 6:1–18.
C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy (Geoffrey Bles, 1955), p. 63.
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (Simon & Schuster, 1987), p. 41.
Cf. John 5:39; 20:31.
J.-J. von Allmen, Preaching and Congregation (Lutterworth, 1962), p. 24.
E.g. Isaiah 1:20.
E.g. Acts 3:18, 21 (rsv).
Hebrews 1:1.
2 Peter 1:21.
J. I. Packer, ‘Fundamentalism’ and the Word of God (IVP, 1958), pp. 81–82.
Cf. 2 Timothy 2:7.
Philemon 9.
Psalm 90:10 (av).
2 Responding to the Word
Acts 17:23.
Mark 12:30.
John 4:24.
Psalm 105:3.
Luke 8:25; Mark 11:22.
John 14:15.
John 14:21.
Hebrews 10:23.
Mark 13:26; 14:62.
2 Peter 3:13.
Matthew 11:28–30.
2 Corinthians 10:5.
Luke 10:16.
John 17:20–23.
Ephesians 4:3.
Op. Calv. XIV, pp. 312–314, quoted in Jean Cadier, The Man God Mastered (ET IVF, 1960), pp. 172–173.
Ephesians 2:20.
E.g. Mark 7:5–13.
David H. C. Read, Go and Make Disciples (Abingdon, 1978), pp. 94–95.
3 Transposing the Word
Anthony C. Thiselton, The Two Horizons: New Testament Hermeneutics and Philosophical Description with Special Reference to Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer and Wittgenstein (Paternoster, 1980). Two shorter essays have brought this debate within reach of ordinary mortals, namely Dr Thiselton’s own ‘Understanding God’s Word Today’, in John Stott (ed.), Obeying Christ in a Changing World, Vol. I (Collins, 1977), pp. 90–122, and Dr J. I. Packer’s ‘Infallible Scripture and the Role of Hermeneutics’, in D. A. Carson and John D. Woodbridge (eds.), Scripture and Truth, (Zondervan and IVP, 1983), pp. 323–356.
A. C. Thiselton, The Two Horizons, p. 103.
Obeying Christ in a Changing World, Vol. I, p. 118.
A. C. Thiselton, The Two Horizons, p. 326.
See e.g. The Willowbank Report: Gospel and Culture (Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, 1978), pp. 10–11.
Psalm 119:18.
Isaiah 42:18–19.
Romans 12:2.
Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty (Penguin, 2011).
From a book review in the Church Times.
See The Willowbank Report: Gospel and Culture, especially ch. 5.
See E. Stanley Jones, The Christ of the Indian Road (Hodder & Stoughton, 1926), e.g. p. 186.
Verse 3.
Verses 4, 5, 10.
Verse 8.
E.g. Psalm 74:14; Isaiah 27:1.
Psalm 19:1–6.
John 13:14.
Paul deals with this issue at some length in both Romans 14 and 1 Corinthians 8.
1 Corinthians 8:4–6.
1 Timothy 2:12.
1 Corinthians 11:4–10; 14:34–35; 1 Timothy 2:11–12.
Galatians 3:28.
1 Timothy 2:11–12.
Genesis 2:24, quoted by Jesus in Mark 10:7–9, with the addition, ‘Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.’
4 Expounding the Word
George Target, Words That Have Moved the World (Bishopsgate, 1987), p. 13.
Matthew 4:4; Deuteronomy 8:3.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers (Hodder & Stoughton, 1971), p. 24.
Ephesians 6:17.
Isaiah 55:9.
Acts 17:23.
Article XX of the Church of England’s Thirty-Nine Articles (1563).
Amos 3:8.
2 Corinthians 4:13; Psalm 116:10.
2 Peter 3:16.
Ephesians 4:11.
Acts 8:26–39.
Quoted by F. W. Farrer in his History of Interpretation, the 1885 Bampton Lectures (Macmillan, 1886), p. 347.
Quoted by Hugh Evan Hopkins in Charles Simeon of Cambridge (Hodder & Stoughton, 1977), p. 57.
E. D. Hirsch, Validity in Interpretation (Yale University Press, 1967), p. 1.
Ibid., p. viii.
Ibid., p. 5.
Ibid., pp. 8, 255. Cf. also E. D. Hirsch, The Aims of Interpretation (University of Chicago Press, 1976), pp. 2–3, 79.
From Dr David Wells’ essay, ‘Word and World’, in Kenneth S. Kantzer and Carl F. H. Henry (eds.), Evangelical Affirmations (Zondervan, 1990), pp. 161–162.
Acts 10:33.
James 1:22–25.
E.g. Psalm 95:7–10.
2 Chronicles 36:16.
Conclusion: the now and the not yet
Mark 1:15, as he translates ēngiken.
Matthew 12:28, ephthasen.
E.g. Matthew 13:16–17; Mark 1:14.
Matthew 12:28–29; cf. Luke 10:17–18.
Luke 17:20–21.
E.g. Mark 10:15.
Matthew 6:10.
Matthew 6:33.
Mark 9:47; cf. Matthew 8:11.
Matthew 25:34.
E.g. Isaiah 2:2; Matthew 12:32; Mark 10:30.
Galatians 1:4.
Colossians 1:13; cf. Acts 26:18; 1 Peter 2:9.
Ephesians 2:6; Colossians 3:1.
E.g. Matthew 13:39; 28:20.
Romans 12:2; 13:11–14; 1 Thessalonians 5:4–8.
Romans 8:24; 5:9–10; 13:11.
Romans 8:15, 23.
John 5:24; 11:25–26; Romans 8:10–11.
Psalm 110:1; Ephesians 1:22; Hebrews 2:8.
Romans 8:24.
Philippians 3:20–21; 1 Thessalonians 1:9–10.
Romans 8:19.
Romans 8:22–23, 26; 2 Corinthians 5:2, 4.
Romans 8:23; 1 Corinthians 1:7.
Romans 8:25.
E.g. Isaiah 32:15; 44:3; Ezekiel 39:29; Joel 2:28; Mark 1:8; Hebrews 6:4–5.
Romans 8:23.
2 Corinthians 5:5; Ephesians 1:14.
Hebrews 6:4–5.
Psalm 119:105.
2 Corinthians 5:7.
Deuteronomy 34:10; cf. Numbers 12:8; Deuteronomy 3:24.
1 Corinthians 13:9–12.
Deuteronomy 29:29.
1 Thessalonians 4:7–8.
Galatians 5:16–26.
2 Corinthians 3:18.
Galatians 5:17.
1 John 1:8.
Philippians 3:12–14; 1:6.
E.g. Leviticus 19:2.
John 8:11 (rsv).
E.g. Romans 7:17, 20; 8:9, 11.
2 Corinthians 12:12 (rsv).
Revelation 11:15.
Hebrews 6:5.
2 Corinthians 4:10–11.
Revelation 21:5.
Ephesians 5:27; cf. Revelation 21:2.
1 Timothy 6:12.
Ephesians 4:3.
Matthew 13:30.
2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1.
Mark 13:7.
Isaiah 2:4.