We hope that you have enjoyed this month’s engagement with Dr. Stephen Presley’s Biblical Theology in the Life of the Early Church: Recovering an Ancient Vision. Dr. Presley is director of education and engagement as well as senior fellow for religion & public life at the CRCD. He is also
Theology has been captured, according to Stephen O. Presley. It has been wrenched from its proper place and context—the church—and forced to reside in the modern university. This change of place has resulted in a change of approach: rather than an ecclesial community, faithfully interpreting Scripture according to historic Christian
For a decade in the mid-third century AD, the church at Carthage, the most prominent see in Roman North Africa, was pastored by a new convert, Cyprian. A rhetoric teacher before his conversion, Cyprian loved books and was a Roman intellectual par excellence. He also was an eager writer, leaving
What I propose now is the recovery of premodern interpretation in ways that revive and revitalize the ecclesial shaping of biblical theology. Hermeneutics is not really about procedures anyway but rather is about essential questions of reality. The modern world has been furiously trying to untie the Gordian knot of
