The Don on The Son of God

I don't often have Saturdays free to write, and even now it is only a few minutes.  But I thought I'd pass along a link to a talk given by D. A. Carson:

Listen to A Christological Title Often Overlooked, Sometimes Misconstrued, and Currently Disputed: Jesus, the Son of God

Download A Christological Title Often Overlooked, Sometimes Misconstrued, and Currently Disputed: Jesus, the Son of God

His talk speaks directly  to several different current concerns in Christology, particularly in how we should understand the title "Son of God."  Char's blog post on Kenotic Arianism hits on some of the relevant issues.  Rey has a collection of links at the Bible Archive, too.

One of the things that Carson does in this brief overview (clocking in as it does at slightly over an hour of talk time) is to link the Old Testament views on the Son of God to the New Testament views on the Son of God, tracing its development, as it were, to a more modern understanding of the deity of Christ vis-a-vis his humanity.

The implications are manifold, and he's really only scratching the surface here.  It's a great talk.

The End of James

{{ I had wished to write more, and more recently.  Time, as always, is at a premium, and opportunities have not presented themselves as readily as last year. }}

We recently finished James, and while there's a lot to mine there (Char will want me to say that she told me there were gobs of references to the sermon on the mount there), I wanted to concentrate briefly on Jas 5.7–11:

NT Timeline

It's not really close to being done, but at least part of the reason I've been posting less here lately has been due to work on a New Testament time line.  The work is pretty incomplete, but since I've not had much time to work on it in the past few weeks, I have decided to publish it anyway.  I'll hopefully have some time to add on to it in the future with additional commentary, links, et c.

Part of the delay is that I've finally made a serious push to read through Wright's The Resurrection of the Son of God, a substantial, well-researched tome.  I'm sure the bibliography could keep me busy for the rest of my life.

My main motivation with the time line was to see how the book of Acts fits in and corroborates  historical data points.  It's fair to say that most history of the time is written to different standards than today, but Luke stands out among the better historians of the ancient world (Xenophon, Thucydides, Tacitus, Suetonius, Josephus, et al.), even though his works are comparatively shorter.  I also wanted to collect basic discussions of the dates of the NT books, their provenance, and arguments.

My notes are woefully incomplete; I beg the reader's pardon.