Tavis BohlingerImage: © Tavis Bohlinger by Andrew M. King, PhD Dr. Tavis Bohlinger penned a very thoughtful response to my recent FTC article on first-year language students leaving their Greek and Hebrew Bibles at home during corporate worship. I heartily commend...
"My goal was to imbibe Scripture in its original form in every conceivable situation where reading, even briefly, might be possible."
Didaktikos"I propose that biblical and theological scholars leave North America and learn a new language, then teach in their fields through the medium of that new language."
I thought, “If a nonbeliever can study theology, certainly believers should be studying theology with folks of different theologies.”
"If a Bible translation requires me to pull out my smartphone dictionary when it could just say broom, and if I won’t even know to look up false friends, then we’ve got a Bible that is no longer accessible to Tyndale’s plowboy."
"It is one of the most painful deficiencies of Biblical study at the present day that the reading of the Septuagint has been pushed into the background, while its exegesis has been scarcely even begun."
The prayer guide Operation World has taught me much over the years. By its estimates, only 16.7 percent of Christians lived in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in 1900. That figure rose to 63.2 percent by 2010 and is projected to reach 70 percent in...
"There is a sense in which we can say that men like Gerstner, and Edwards before him, 'lost' their battles with Culture."
"Don’t be shy about being your type of mentor. It’s your motive that counts, not the method or formula you use to mentor."
"Seminary students want to know and be known in their classes. If you are committed to caring for your students, they will respond and engage."