Dr. P. de Vries – artikelen en opinie
'Uw goedertierenheid is beter dan het leven' (Psalm 63)
This article analyzes and evaluates how Alvin Plantinga speaks of the status and authority of the Bible. It shows the relevance of his insights into two kinds of Christian biblical scholarship, which he develops in Warranted Christian Belief and Knowledge and Christian Belief. Plantinga argues that we can speak of knowledge when we have a [...]
The relevance and meaning of the Old Testament and its relation to the New Testament is the most important question in the field of hermeneutics. The answers we give to this question, determines the character of our faith. Do we think that we can build our faith only on the New Testament or are we [...]
When doing theology must we start with God, the Bible or hermeneutics? For postmodernism we must start with hermeneutics. God and the Bible as his Word are not seen as objective realities but only as realities with can only be discussed in the context of faith- and reading-communities. Already some years ago Kevin VanHoozer in [...]
One of the major flashpoints in academic biblical studies in the past 125 years has centred on the authorship and dating of the book of Isaiah. Beginning in the late 1800s, some scholars suggested that this book may have been written by multiple people over a period of centuries, a view that contrasts with the [...]
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