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John Goldingay has a 3-volume "Old Testament Theology" in print. Has anyone read, or at least read in, these volumes?
Is it good? Bad? Somewhere in between?
Is it good? Bad? Somewhere in between?
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Goldingay is an open theist, so there's lots to disagree about as well. I was disappointed that so many "evangelical" scholars puffed the book. He's a liberal, too, so two strikes against him. But he has some helpful things to say, I think.
I have read all of volume 1 and bits of 2 and 3. Volume 1 is definitely the best. Lots of good literary analysis. Goldingay is an open theist, so there's lots to disagree about as well. I was disappointed that so many "evangelical" scholars puffed the book. He's a liberal, too, so two strikes against him. But he has some helpful things to say, I think.
I have read all of volume 1 and bits of 2 and 3. Volume 1 is definitely the best. Lots of good literary analysis. Goldingay is an open theist, so there's lots to disagree about as well. I was disappointed that so many "evangelical" scholars puffed the book. He's a liberal, too, so two strikes against him. But he has some helpful things to say, I think.
Thanks, Lane. I'll read around his open theism and his liberalism in general. What do you think of his 3-volume commentary on the Psalms, if you've read in it?
I have read all of volume 1 and bits of 2 and 3. Volume 1 is definitely the best. Lots of good literary analysis. Goldingay is an open theist, so there's lots to disagree about as well. I was disappointed that so many "evangelical" scholars puffed the book. He's a liberal, too, so two strikes against him. But he has some helpful things to say, I think.
Thanks, Lane. I'll read around his open theism and his liberalism in general. What do you think of his 3-volume commentary on the Psalms, if you've read in it?
I've read the entire second volume, and a good deal of the first. It's pretty good, actually. The liberalness and the open-theism don't come out as strongly in the Psalms commentary as they do in the OTT. There are way better commentaries on the Psalms, though. As part of a complete Psalms library, it is well worth having.