Tag: Daniel Kirk
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Surprise (Daniel Kirk on Jesus and Adam)
Storied Theology: Surprise Daniel Kirk Jesus was an unlikely Messiah. … … But it’s not just that Jesus was crucified. Surprising as that was, the more incomprehensible idea was that this crucifixion would somehow be, not the denial of his messiahship, but the quintessential embodiment of it. What it means to be Messiah is, somehow,…
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Adam, OT, & Judaism
Storied Theology: Adam, OT, & Judaism Daniel Kirk It seems that I am ever hearing about the relative unimportance of Adam as a determining figure in non-Christian Judaism: Adam is only mentioned outside of Genesis 1-4 in genealogies; there is no “fall” per se in the Hebrew Bible; Christians make a lot of Adam because…
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The Central Question of the Biblical Narrative
Daniel Kirk, NT professor at Fuller Seminary, wrote a post recently about issues stemming from 1 Corinthians 15. Within it, he wrote: …The story Paul tells is one in which the earth has been subjected to other powers: God had originally subjected it to people, but people ceded that rule to the likes of sin,…
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The Reality of Adam and the Story of Christ
Storied Theology (Daniel Kirk): The Reality of Adam and the Story of Christ On Friday of last week, David Opderbeck asked a challenging question. I had posted on “Anthroposis,” the idea that what we really need is to become more truly human than we already are. Or, in the biblical narrative, to return to the…
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Scripture and Science… Again…
Storied Theology: Scripture and Science… Again… Over at Don’t Stop Believing, Mike Wittmer makes an observation and asks a question that I hope we don’t find the answer to anytime soon, though such hopes are often disappointed. He draws our attention to a recent issue of a science and Christianity journal: This month’s issue of…
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Daniel Kirk on History and the Bible
Daniel Kirk, NT professor at Fuller Seminary, has just written three fine posts on history and the Bible. (First post and second post.) He has been particularly addressing the notion that the degree to which the Bible matches up with precise facts of history determines its validity. At the end of his third post today,…
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The Historical Adam and the Saving Christ
Daniel Kirk, Professor of New Testament at Fuller Seminary, had an interesting three-part series and Science and the Sacred called The Historical Adam and the Saving Christ. You can read all three parts here: Part 1: Adam as Israel Part 2: Jesus as the One Man Part 3: Jesus as the New Humanity