Quick: when you think of Bible study, do you think independent scholarship, or participation in a discussion that transcends time and place?
Brad has an important post on the place of bible commentaries and a return to the premodern idea of biblical study.
Read it here.
As more and more evangelicals abandon their nominalist roots, it shouldn't be surprising that commentaries are receiving new respect. Another way to ask the question: will heaven be me and Jesus, or something a little bit broader?
Illustration of Dante's Paradiso, canto X, first circle of the 12 teachers of wisdom led by Thomas Aquinas. Manuscript: British Library, Yates Thompson 36, fol. 147 (between 1442 and c.1450) Artist: Giovanni di Paolo (c.1403–1483)
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