Associate Professor of New Testament, Tyndale Seminary
The “Word of God” The Church has, for most of its existence, confessed that the New Testament is not simply a human book. It is in some sense the “Word of God.” In the 19th and 20th centuries more traditional Christians have re-affirmed this confession as a central part of their life and faith. For…
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What Is a Canon? The word “canon” comes from the Greek term kanon meaning ‘reed.’ The ancients often cut off long reeds to use for measuring things, like a primitive ruler. So kanon came to be used as a metaphor for any standard. A kanon is what you compare things to, checking to see whether…
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Every term, not long before final papers are due, my students in the NT survey course are thrown a curve ball. We come to the letter to the Ephesians and the so-called Pastoral Letters (1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus). Most of my students discover for the first time how many scholars doubt these letters…
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