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Bible and culture 4: The Multiperspectival Bible
The transcultural nature of the Bible (see the previous post in this series) is reflected and instantiated in the biblical documents themselves in at least four ways. Each of these ways shows how the Bible crosses multiple perspectives in a way that neither homogenises them into undifferentiated unity nor fragments them into irreconcilable incoherence. First
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Bible and culture 3: Universal Truth, Specific Cultures, and the Incarnation
In this third post in the Bible and culture series I continue to take an eschatologically realist approach to Revelation 7. Specifically, I bring the remarkable claims of Christ’s incarnation alongside Revelation 7 in order to show that biblcial truth is not a-cultural, monocultural or even multicultural, but transcultural. We moderns tend to think of
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Bible and culture 2: The Revelation 7 Paradigm
In this second post in the series on the Bible and culture I continue to prepare the ground for a series of reflections about bringing Bible and culture into conversation. Having sketched out the importance of eschatological realism, I now want to explore how the depiction of the new heavens and new earth in the
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Bible and culture 1: Eschatological realism and “the way things are” for the Bible.
This is the first in a new series of posts exploring how to understand both the Bible and contemporary culture in a way that help us bring them into meaningful and rigorous conversation. This first post addresses what it means to talk about “the way things are” from a biblical perspective. For the Christian,
