Speaking Schedule

November 1, 2006 By Scot McKnight

October 14, 15 Embracing Grace Irving Bible Church Irving, Texas Contact: Steve Roese October 19-22 Durham, New Hampshire October 24-27 Emergent at Westminster Theological Seminary Philadelphia, PA Contact: Anthony Stiff November 7 John Brown University Siloam Springs, Arkansas Chapel: The Great Commandment Contact: Tracy Balzer November 10-12 Inauguration and Installation of NPU’s new President Dr. David Parkyn North Park University November 17 “There is only One who is good”: Matthew and the Development of Christology within Monotheistic Judaism. Response to... Read more

Bloglossary

November 1, 2006 By Scot McKnight

Introductory warning: these are rough and ready definitions designed to help readers of this blog; a glossary like this is not designed to be quoted, cited, or referenced in papers and books. So, please do not quote this anywhere else. Apophatic: a way of speaking about God by using negations: infinite, incomprehensible, unfathomable… These terms reflect an understanding of God as so vast as to be incapable of being captured in words, and an admission that the human mind can... Read more

Bio

November 1, 2006 By Scot McKnight

Scot McKnight is a widely-recognized authority on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus. He is the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University (Chicago, Illinois). A popular and witty speaker, Dr. McKnight has given interviews on radios across the nation, has appeared on television, and is regularly asked to speak in local churches and educational events. Dr. McKnight obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham (1986). Scot McKnight is a member of... Read more

Women in Ministry: Personhood

November 1, 2006 By Scot McKnight

Last week I received a sensitive letter — a letter that made me more sensitive. Here’s the issue that the writer pressed into my mind: when we talk about “women in ministry” we need to understand that, regardless of what we think, there are women who genuinely think they have been called by God into a ministry and treating such a topic neutrally threatens their sense of vocation. Furthermore, |inline Read more

The Real Mary‘s In!

November 1, 2006 By Scot McKnight

It’s November 1, and Paraclete now has copies of The Real Mary ready to ship out. You can order the book from the publisher by clicking here. (I’m grateful that Paraclete is getting the books available well before the publishing date.) In addition, we now have 100 Street Teams signed up to discuss The Real Mary. |inline Read more

Negative and Positive

November 1, 2006 By Scot McKnight

Psalm 119:3 says “They have done no wrong, but have followed God’s ways.” The one whose identity is shaped by Torah, by the revealing words from God, are characterized by (at least) two attributes: |inline Read more

Westminster, Emerging, and Church Unity

October 31, 2006 By Scot McKnight

Like the Beach Boys, I’ve been all around these States of ours in the last three years, and I have an observation about church unity: everyone between 20 and 40 packs a computer, reads blogs, and dresses the same. Even seminary students these days are wearing blue jeans, flip flops (preferably Rainbow!), T-shirts, and they have spikey hair and funky facial hair. I have started wearing color T-shirts, but no one seems to have noticed. (There is a rumor that... Read more

Do Calvinists understand Arminianism? 10

October 31, 2006 By Scot McKnight

This is our last in the series on Roger Olson’s book, Arminian Theology. Myth #10 is that Arminians adhere to the “governmental theory of atonement.” Most may not know what this theory holds, and most may never have heard that Arminians believe this. |inline Read more

Speaking our Eschatology

October 31, 2006 By Scot McKnight

My grandmother, at the time over 90, worried to my father that she was pregnant. Her worries did not come from some kind of Sarah-for-our-time miracle but instead from the gradual loss of her mind. My grandfather, who landed in this world right around 1900 and moved to this good country as a teen and who was seriously wounded with a Jacob-like wound, regularly said “echel macpheckel” to me — it was something he had learned in Scotland and wanted... Read more

Thinking it through

October 31, 2006 By Scot McKnight

Commentaries on Psalm 119 fade. That is, they treat each paragraph in sum and make only brief comments. I suppose this saves space because Psalm 119 can be treated as 22 individual psalms. Today I’ll look at the flow of the first “letter” (vv. 1-8). |inline Read more