Good Theology – Bad Exegesis
I’ve encountered this a few times, so I was delighted to find this little discussion, courtesy of John Hobbins, whose post on the educational value of reading biblioblogs is also good. Awilum.com goes on my blogroll.
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Nice, thanks!
Thanks for picking up on this, Henry, except that your link to my post doesn’t work.
John–the link is fixed.