About – The Goldgay Bible Clic

Contents:

• JOHN GOLDGAY
• JAM GOLDGAY
• THE GOLDGAY BIBLE CLIC
• GOLDGAY
• JAM GOLDGAY
• ELSIE GOLDGAY

JOHN GOLDGAY

John Goldgay. John Goldgay teach Hebrew Bible at Fuller Theologil Semary. Goldgay do not search out a thematic re or overarchg uny, but allows Scripture’s diversy and tensns to rema as manifold wns to the ways of God.

While many terpreters terrogate Scripture unr the harsh light of late-morn qutns, Goldgay engag a dialogue keen on lettg Scripture speak to s own voice.

On the one hand, that allowed Goldgay to be rehgly hont about what the Bible says, as opposed to harmonizg forcefully and seekg to nform to orthodoxy. For example, Goldgay not that the Greek word often translated as “jtifitn” the New Ttament ually do not occur a judicial ntext, so he pursu another terpretatn of jtifitn, one that foc on God’s venant mment. Yet, other plac, Goldgay’s discsn of jtifitn tends to fall back on judicial language.

JAM GOLDGAY

On the atonement, Goldgay appears to reject penal substutn, while also embracg .

My imprsn is that Goldgay wants to create an alternative mol, but he fds that the mol is aquate acuntg for all of the biblil data, so he falls back on nventnal mols.

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At the same time, Goldgay do well to show that nventnal mols, themselv, have lims and are not the only way to terpret biblil passag.

—-Goldgay’s discsn of Pl and the law was remarkably herent, as Goldgay tegrated Pl’s pro-Torah and anti-Torah (if that is the right term) sentiments to a herent package.

GOLDGAY

—-Although Goldgay explor the diversy of Scripture, the book do read as a narrative of God’s activy the world. For stance, addrsg pro-Temple and anti-Temple voic, Goldgay stat that God was ially hant to dwell a Temple, then beme gun-ho Temple once Solomon built . Goldgay argu that I Timothy 2:15’s statement that women shall be saved through childbearg is nsistent wh jtifitn by grace through fah alone, as he argu that good works are an exprsn of fah.

My imprsn is that Goldgay was searchg for herence. This may go back to what I said above about the arth of source cricism this book: Goldgay may reil om seeg the Bible as a pose of different human voic, preferrg stead to regard as a dive revelatn that is ultimately herent, notwhstandg s tensns. —-Whether Goldgay’s big picture is ultimately herent is a good qutn.

On the one hand, Goldgay seems to portray God as one who has forsaken wrath, due to the work of Christ. On the other hand, Goldgay’s God still appears to judge people’s behavr. Perhaps Goldgay’s narrative n only be as nsistent or herent as the Bible allows!

JAM GOLDGAY

—-I liked how Goldgay phrased thgs. Goldgay managed to phrase exclivist or potentially exclivist ncepts an appealg manner, however. Rather than sayg that non-Christian religns are wrong, Goldgay says that the Bible is clear that there are thgs that non-Christians need to know.

Regardg J’ statement that he is the way, tth, and life (John 14:6), Goldgay stat that “Dyg is his way to the Father, and his dyg is the only way they will get there” (page 547). Goldgay seems to exprs agnosticism about the eternal sty of adherents to other religns, but he effectively nveyed that J’ ath was necsary to provi people a way to the Father. —-Goldgay’s discsns of munarianism stood out to me.

Goldgay, wh some empathy, noted the dividualism of Wtern culture, while sayg that people are still part of a muny, whether or not they sire or regnize that. Later, Goldgay ntrasts the early Christian church wh the voluntary societi of s ancient ntext: acrdg to Goldgay, the church was tentnally anized to be like a fay, not a voluntary society that people n jo and leave as they wish; that discsn was unnervg, yet rmative.

ELSIE GOLDGAY

In a few plac, Goldgay seems to say that relatnships church should take precence over natural fay relatnships.