Gay Marriage: Analysis Of Newsweek's Article
Post 1: The Beginning
Post 2: Journalistic Integrity
Post 3: Bible And Marriage
Post 4: Homosexuality and the Bible
Post 5: Remaining Issues
Dr. Darrell Bock is Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. He also is Professor for Spiritual Development and Culture there. He is an Editor at Large for Christianity Today and is a Past President of the Evangelical Theological Society (2000-2001). He is the author of over twenty books and is a New York Times Best Selling author. He has been blogging on this site since May, 2006.
Craig: Yes, Bauckham is less confident of the significance of this Jewish background than I am. The two ideas are not the same. My point is that "room" for the kind of thing Christians proclaimed is seen in the types of background that is present here. The ideas do not match, because Jesus has unique honor and position, but the idea of some type of personification of God being at work was a part of a segment of Judaism in the first century. The step to an intimately related figure is a short one. dlb