Thursday, June 18, 2020

Romans and Galatians from the Perspective of Paul's Gospel?



What is Paul's gospel?
How can we read Romans and Galatians from the perspective of Paul's gospel?
Many people have read these letters one way or another.
Here is my approach to the gospel of Paul, which I believe helps readers see the essence of his message.

Freedom in the New Testament



What does the New Testament say about freedom?
Have you heard about three aspects of freedom?

Faith in the New Testament



What does the New Testament say about faith?

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

10 Lessons of the Parables of Jesus

How to interpret parables



  • As a story about life 
  • As a metaphor about the rule/reign of God
  • As Jesus's story

Monday, June 15, 2020

Messiah in weakness



What is weakness (astheneia)? How can we see ourselves differently with this lens of weakness? How can we understand Jesus differently with this lens?


Saturday, June 13, 2020

Resurrecting Jesus



Jesus cannot be domesticated! In Resurrecting Jesus, Kim asks the fundamental two-prong question, "What, then, can we learn from Jesus, and how can we build on the significance of his life and work as we do theology for our day in the here and now?" Kim abandons the traditional divide between criticism and theology and argues that a solid New Testament theology can be reconstructed from a critical study of the historical Jesus. Jesus is put back into the context of first-century Judaism in Palestine. Resurrecting Jesus reexamines Jesus' life, work, death, and resurrection, giving readers a better, clearer understanding about the historical Jesus and the New Testament writings that refer to him; an exploration into the significance of Jesus' life, teaching, and death, based not on doctrine but on his work of God in first-century Judaism and Palestine; and a redefinition of New Testament theology that is a process of discerning and engaging the historical Jesus and the New Testament writings.