Tag: Boyd

  • Crucifying the Warrior God (Boyd Project 5)

    Crucifying the Warrior God (Boyd Project 5)

    It is time to wrap up. How does Boyd’s cruciform hermeneutic work when it is applied to actual Bible passages? In the first volume of The Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Boyd posits the cross as the centre and foundation of Christian theology. From this, he derives, through deduction, what God can and cannot have…

  • A Peculiar Blend of Cruciform (Boyd Project 4)

    A Peculiar Blend of Cruciform (Boyd Project 4)

    The previous issue dealt with chapter 1-6 of Greg Boyd’s monumental book, The Crucifixion of the Warrior God. It presents Boyd’s general theory of interpretation, which can be summarized in one word: cruciform. The second half of volume 1, chapter 7-12, deals more specifically with the problem of violence in Scripture and discusses possible solutions.…

  • The Conquest of Canaan (Boyd Project 1)

    The Conquest of Canaan (Boyd Project 1)

    I am launching a project that will take me several issues to complete. The subject is a big one: what some people refer to as the violence of God in the Old Testament (OT). Gregory Boyd has written a voluminously fat book about this: The Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Interpreting the Old Testament’s Violent…