Author Archive: Bobby Grow
Reflections on Historical Theology
Something that drastically changed my theological development and life was and is Historical Theology; I first engaged with it in my seminary Reformation and Patristic Theology classes. For the first time (at that point), pieces really began to fall into place for me (including my undergrad Bible College experience which didn’t get into, so much, …
A Working Proposal Toward a Christ-centered Reading of Scripture
What does it mean to have a Christ-centered reading of Scripture? I have a post in the works where we will work through this question a bit. Let me just foreshadow that post by offering a simple reflection of what I think this might mean. A Christ-centered reading of Scripture does so with the full …
Please Pray For My CT Scan Tomorrow: A Retelling of My Cancer Story
Addendum: Thank you all for your prayers. I am cancer free still, and I don’t have to go in again for another 9 mos. Praise the Lord! It is that time again; I have my next CT scan coming up tomorrow, to make sure that I am still cancer free. I have added many readers since …
The Problem with Canonical Critical Biblical Interpretation: Applied to NT Wright and Others [Making Sure Scripture's Meaning is Not History Contingent, But Instead Christ Contingent]
When I was in undergrad (Bible College) there was this ongoing debate between almost all of the profs with one stand out prof (and I mean from the other profs). The debate orbited around a theory of hermeneutics/exegesis. It was a debate, in my context, that had its own idiosyncrasies, but those notwithstanding, in general, …
Conversational [Dialogical] Theology: Being a Catholic Interpreter, with Advice for N.T. Wright
If the Christian life is dialogical, or shaped by conversation with God and His people; which it is (I would argue). And if Jesus Christ, according to Paul, promised that He would build His Church up by providing it with teachers/elders, evangelists, et al (Eph. 4); which He did. And this promise has come to …
Was Jesus Planning on Coming [Incarnating] Even Without the ‘Fall’?
Do you think Jesus would have come, and was originally planning on coming to earth, and incarnating, even without the ‘fall’ of humanity into sin? Here is how Myk Habets (friend, mentor, soon to be doctoral supervisor, co-editor, brother in Christ) has asked this question with more elaboration: [A]ccording to Christian tradition Jesus Christ is …
The ‘Beast’ in the Book of Revelation: And Implications
I have been reading Richard Bauckham’s The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation; I was spurned to read this because I read his smaller book The Theology of the Book of Revelation a few months ago, which was excellent and a must read. In fact I would say that if you haven’t …
Does the ‘Greek’ Support Pre-Tribulational Rapture Theology and the Left Behind Series?
My background is in Dispensational-Pre-Tribulational-Rapture-Premillennial theology. My alma mater (Multnomah Bible College and Multnomah Biblical Seminary) find their heritage squarely ensconced within this orbit; indeed, so much so, that Multnomah has at points been called ‘mini-Dallas’ (Theological Seminary)—in fact Multnomah’s origins are inimically tied into Dallas, by way of its founder[s], and its faculty (which is …
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