John E. Goldingay

“The prophets’ task is to tell their own people what God intends to do with them, not to think about what people…

— John E. Goldingay

“The imprecatory psalms are for us to pray, who are not victims. Indeed, if we do not want to pray them, it…

— John E. Goldingay

“(Whereas we are inclined to equate the reality and the sense of the reality, these are different things—there can be a reality…

— John E. Goldingay

“What is distinctive and engaging about Jesus is not the novel things he says but the way he says things. He is…

— John E. Goldingay

“In none of the Gospels does Jesus tell his disciples to extend the kingdom, work for the kingdom, build up the kingdom,…

— John E. Goldingay

“Although the First Testament talks about slavery, Middle Eastern slavery was not an inherently oppressive institution like the European slavery accepted under…

— John E. Goldingay

“the society in which the people of God will seek to implement this justice is one that remains sinful. It is in…

— John E. Goldingay

“The Bible assumes that we do not know instinctively how to talk with God but rather need some help with knowing how…

— John E. Goldingay

“It is said that the difference between God and us is that God never thinks he is us. Genesis suggests some nuancing…

— John E. Goldingay

“Jesus’ disciples are not people lacking resources, but they are poor because they belong to this people under the oppressive and demoralizing…

— John E. Goldingay

“the First Testament is under no illusion about whether implementing the Torah has the potential to achieve God’s purpose for Israel’s life.…

— John E. Goldingay

“Our relationship with God is not contractual, so that we could fulfill the right conditions and it would have the desired results,…

— John E. Goldingay

“We have noted thatthe two creation stories contained no pointers toward male “headship” in the sense that men or husbands are supposed…

— John E. Goldingay

“the New Testament does not talk about human beings furthering or spreading or building up or working for God’s reign. Human efforts…

— John E. Goldingay

“So that is why grace found Noah. Not surprisingly the way this worked was evidently the same as the way God’s grace…

— John E. Goldingay

“God is a different league of person from us, but God is a person like us, not an abstract force or a…

— John E. Goldingay

“Genesis supplements “created in God’s image” with the affirmation that God thus made humanity “male and female.” Women and men together comprise…

— John E. Goldingay

“the order in which Genesis reports on God and Noah is significant. First it tells us Noah found grace with God. Then…

— John E. Goldingay

“At the beginning of its treatment of the Ten Commandments, a rabbinic commentary on Exodus, the Mekilta of Rabbi Ishmael, raises the…

— John E. Goldingay

“I am told there are readers of Genesis who argue the following: If evolution is true, there was no Adam and Eve.…

— John E. Goldingay

“the Torah itself sets obedience in the context of trust.”

— John E. Goldingay

“The nature of the praise and prayer in the Psalms indicates how memory is key to praise and prayer.”

— John E. Goldingay

“Memory relates to ethics as well as to spirituality (the distinction between ethics and spirituality is a Western one and does more…

— John E. Goldingay

“Jesus does put radical demands before people, but so did Isaiah and so does Proverbs. The New Testament is new in the…

— John E. Goldingay

“It is as creatures made jointly in God’s image that women and men together have the task of mastering the earth. In…

— John E. Goldingay

“God can of course look in someone’s mind to discover what he is thinking, or look into the future to discover what…

— John E. Goldingay