Brian ChilcoteApr 1311 minHermeneuticsGenocidal Joshua? What about the bothersome parts of the Bible that depict God telling people to kill other people? How did these scenes make it into our...
Brian ChilcoteMar 167 minHermeneuticsThey Told Stories About Him"… Jesus was the kind of extraordinary person who inspired people so profoundly that they told stories about him. As they did, they...
Brian ChilcoteMar 213 minDoctrines: inspirationInterrogating Biblical Inspiration"We contend that viewing the inspiration of Scripture solely from the cognitive environment of print culture opens the door to...
Brian ChilcoteJan 269 minThe BiblePeeking Over the Wall of Certainty Many churchgoing believers are given the impression that the Bible is totally unique among written works. We are taught that in subject...
Brian ChilcoteOct 6, 20225 minRhetoricRhetorical Questions Part 6: Implications for Interpretation Rhetoric… So what? What are the implications for us, modern readers of the Gospel of John? And what might be of value in applying ancient...
Brian ChilcoteOct 6, 20225 minRhetoricRhetorical Questions Part 5: The Gospel of John meets CiceroIt has been suggested that the gospel of John is organized similarly to a Ciceronian argument in a court of law (Cicero was a well known...
Brian ChilcoteOct 5, 20226 minRhetoricRhetorical Questions Part 4 Literary DevicesWhile only a few privileged denizens of antiquity had access to an education in rhetoric, nearly everyone experienced it in some way as...