Peripatetic Pastor

Tag: Canon

  • THINKING ABOUT BIBLICAL AUTHORITY

    Reading the Bible with Joy Authority in Crisis We face a crisis of authority. Or, rather, crises of authority. Some of these are in matters of faith. My most recent post on reading the Bible ended with a question about biblical authority: When does the Bible say to the church: “Thus says the Lord”? When…

  • TOWARD A HERMENEUTIC OF THE CONFESSIONS I

    I don’t remember much if any discussion in seminary about how to interpret the confessions. I don’t think this was because I was not paying enough attention—although, I may not have been. While it was often said that we—the Christian Reformed Church (CRC)—were a confessional church, not much was said about what this meant in…