Evolutionary Theology?

It is simply historically false to suggest that the intellectual boundaries of Christianity were not defined until well after the New Testament era. The evidence taht they already existed in the New Testament era is compelling. However, as offshoots and aberrations from the earlier and more apostolic faith arose in the second through fourth centuries, the church was forced to more clearly define Christological orthodoxy and orthopraxy. Then indeed the boundaries were more rigidly and firmly put in place. But this is not because before the fourth century what existed was a "free-range" Christianity that would have considered Gnosticism (or, for that matter, an inadequate Christology or polytheism or libertinism) a legitimate variant on a Christian theme. It is because the specific problems raised by such later deviations had not yet formed, or had not yet fully formed, in the New Testament era.

Ben Witherington III, What Have They Done with Jesus? (San Francisco: Harper, 2006) 224-225.

The Active Word

The word creates and sustains…Genesis 1:3; Psalm 33:6; Hebrews 1:3; John 1:1-3

The word is a sword…Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12-13; Revelation 1:16

The word saves…James 1:21; Psalm 107:20

The word is personified…Isaiah 55:11; Psalm 147:15-18; Acts 6:7, 12:24, 13:49

The word equips…2 Timothy 3:16-17

The word builds up…Acts 20:32

The word sanctifies…John 17:17

The word gives life…John 6:63, 68; Acts 13:46, 48; Phil. 2:16; 1 John 1:1

The word sustains…Matthew 7:24-27

The word is a lamp…Psalm 119:105; 2 Peter 1:19

The word abides forever…1 Peter 1:25; Psalm 119:89, 160; John 10:35

The word gives hope…Psalm 119:43, 74, 81, 114, 147, 130:5

A Brief History of Interpretation

A very helpful summary of the history of biblical interpretation by Dr. Thomas Long...

http://community.tncc.edu/faculty/longt/REL200/intro-comp-interp.htm

Presbyterians Revisit Traditional Trinitarian Language

A feminist rendering of trinitarian language...

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20060321/presbyterians-consider-triune-mother-child-and-womb/index.html

Homosexuality and Religion

A (mostly balanced) discussion of the issues related to homosexuality and religion including biblical interpretation.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/homosexu3.htm

A short example of homosexual hermeneutics...

Anti-gays hide their bias behind the Bible - CNN.com

Gregory of Nyssa on Song of Songs

Comment on Song of Songs 1:13...

The location of the heart is said by experts to lie between the two breasts. Here is where the bride says that she has the sachet in which her treasure is kept. Also, the heart is said to be a source of warmth from which the body's heat is distributed through the arteries. The body's members are thereby heated, animated and nourished by the heart's fire. Therefore the bride has received the good odor of Christ in the governing part of the soul and has made her own heart a kind of sachet for such incense. And so she makes all her actions, like parts of the body, seethe with the breath from her heart so that no iniquity can cool her love for God in any member of her body.

Homilies on the Song of Songs 3 in J. Robert Wright, Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: OT IX (Downers Grove: IVP, 2005), 306-307.