Tag Archives: Walter Moberly

Forward and Backward

Posted on March 17, 2020 by rjs5

These are interesting times. Last Monday and Tuesday I was out of town, part of a departmental review committee at another University. Wednesday, seeing the writing on the wall, I spent half of my class introducing my students to our … Continue reading →

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Inerrant or Trustworthy?

Posted on August 6, 2019 by rjs5

In the final chapter (actually an epilogue) of The Bible in a Disenchanted Age: The Enduring Possibility of Christian Faith, Walter Moberly digs biblical literacy and a Christian privileging of the bible. In his discussion he uses the example of … Continue reading →

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Faith in a Disenchanted Age

Posted on June 18, 2019 by rjs5

Walter Moberly, The Bible in a Disenchanted Age: The Enduring Possibility of Christian Faith, explains why he finds the Bible and the Christian faith both plausible and convincing. Although the Bible is important, it doesn’t work in a vacuum. In … Continue reading →

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The Chicken or the Egg?

Posted on June 4, 2019 by rjs5

What comes first, the church or the bible? In many respects this is a chicken or egg question. It isn’t really possible to separate the two. We have the bible through the church and we privilege the bible because of … Continue reading →

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Foundations and Faith

Posted on May 23, 2019 by rjs5

I am reading through Walter Moberly’s recent book, The Bible in a Disenchanted Age: The Enduring Possibility of Christian Faith. Chapter 3 presents the bulk of his argument for the Bible as a privileged set of writings, through the Spirit … Continue reading →

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Approaching the Bible as …

Posted on May 16, 2019 by rjs5

Walter Moberly, The Bible in a Disenchanted Age, proposes three approaches to reading the Bible. As Christians we read the Bible through eyes of faith, to know God. But the Bible remains a subject for significant study in the secular … Continue reading →

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The Bible For Today

Posted on May 7, 2019 by rjs5

I recently picked up a book by R. W. L. Moberly The Bible in a Disenchanted Age, relatively new – published early 2018. Marianne Meye Thompson writes in her blurb for the book: In this gem of a book, Walter … Continue reading →

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God Intended It For Good

Posted on January 19, 2017 by rjs5

It has been awhile since the last post on Genesis, but it is time to step back and wrap up the story with the Joseph narrative, chapters 37, 39-50. The story is well known – long a Sunday School and … Continue reading →

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Abraham, Model of Faith? The Binding of Isaac

Posted on August 30, 2016 by rjs5

One of the hardest stories in the Old Testament comes in Genesis 22. Here God tests Abraham by asking him to sacrifice Isaac – his beloved son of the promise. This passage is next up in our slow walk through … Continue reading →

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And Abram Went

Posted on May 26, 2016 by rjs5

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make … Continue reading →

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