Jason Learner
- Judging from the look inside feature, thus book looks like it is going to be terrible book which does not represent the Calvinist side of the 'argument ' at all. All of its assumptions about the Calvinist view on a text are incorrect and frankly unbiblical, which is shocking considering it is meant to be an academic book. If you'd like me to give it a proper review I'd happily read it but I'm not paying for it based on the look inside content
- I agree, I stopped reading after the horrible characterization of Ephesians 2. Why not use the Greek text that confirms Calvinism? Who uses a Latin translation? I will NOT be getting this book in Logos. Thanks for pointing this out so that I would read it!
- Thanks for leaving a book review on a book you haven't read. Very helpful.
- what you can't tell from the very brief excerpt you read about Ep 2:3, the author is showing the texts that Augustine used to support his view of "inherited guilt." However, it is clearly seen in that excerpt that the author does reference the Greek and it is Augustine who used the Latin. It's rather ironic that your criticism is the exact criticism the author is using against Augustine. Maybe you should read the book.
- “To understand how it is possible to include Job 31 within sapiential ethics, we need to define biblical wisdom. While there are various attempts to catch wisdom’s essence—wisdom is ‘the ability to cope,’ ‘the art of steering’; it is ‘practical knowledge of the laws of life and of the world, based on experience’; wisdom constitutes ‘parents’ legacy to their children’; it is ‘the quest for self-understanding and for mastery of the world’—no single definition suffices because of the variety of phenomena that employ the Hebrew word ḥokmâ and similar ideas in the ancient Near East.26 Still, a beginning step toward an adequate definition can be taken.” (Page 9) “The third point: Wisdom is a particular attitude toward reality, a worldview. That stance survives through time and reaches from one end of the Fertile Crescent to the other.” (Page 10) While the above might be very interesting, i always thought biblical wisdom was the fear of the Lord (proverbs 1:7)
- i can't view this in Logos 9. It just says the resource cannot be displayed
- , Sorry for the trouble you're experiencing accessing this resource! This resource is an interlinear resource, it works differently than the usual resource, this article should help: https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016304852-Interlinears
