Nielsen’s Nook

One afternoon a group of fellow Christians of a variety of Protestant denominations were sitting together having a meal in a break room when the subject of Harry Potter bubbled to the surface of a cauldron of conversation in which I was participating. Crystal and I had been talking about the tremendous imaginative elements in the book, when she asked ...

The introduction and first section of Osborne's article in the IVP Dictionary of Paul and His Letters is concerned with "recent hermeneutical issues." It is where Osborne defines foundational trajectories that will carry and influence the more practical sections of the article the follow. The scope of my interaction here is not to critique each of his interactions ...

Osborne, Grant R. "Hermeneutics/Interpreting Paul." In Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed. Gerald F. Hawthorne, Ralph P. Martin and Daniel G. Reid, 388-396. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1993.I have some time off from preaching for a while, so I am diving into Paul, especially the book of Romans after spending much time in Genesis, Deuteronomy and the Psalms. ...