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Eric Seibert

Enjoying the Old Testament: A Review

May 2, 2022 by Randal

Eric A. Seibert, Enjoying the Old Testament: A Creative Guide to Encountering Scripture. IVP Academic, 234 pp. Francis Bacon famously observed, “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested…” For many Christians, the Old Testament is like spinach: we know it is good for us, but […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, biblical studies, Enjoying the Old Testament, Eric Seibert, review

Reckoning with the Peaceable Kingdom: A Review of Disarming the Church

July 9, 2018 by Randal

Eric A. Seibert. Disarming the Church: Why Christians Must Forsake Violence to Follow Jesus and Change the World. (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2018.) Carl Norden was a devout Christian. So when he developed the Norden bombsight, it was with the intent of increasing the accuracy of aerial bombing to the end of decreasing the resulting collateral damage wrought […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical ethics, Christian ethics, Eric Seibert, just war, pacifism, violence

Crucify! Crucify! The standard evangelical response to the Christian provocateur?

April 8, 2015 by Randal

A couple years ago I reviewed Christian Bible scholar Eric Seibert’s book The Violence of Scripture here. Next, I published a print interview with Eric. A year later, I interviewed Eric again in my podcast. Eric is a profound, admirably honest, compassionate and provocative Christian scholar. The word “provocateur” can mean simply one who provokes, in which […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: dialogue, Eric Seibert, evangelicalism

Hell, right doctrine, and right character

April 2, 2014 by Randal

In my recent interview with Robin Parry on universalism, Robin observed that Christians should want universalism to be true. Indeed, he put the point rather provocatively when he declared, “You’d have to be a psychopath not to want [universalism] to be true.” Psychopath?! Them’s fightin’ words! That might seem like a daring statement, but as Parry […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Augustine, Bible, Eric Seibert, hell, hermeneutics, Robin Parry, violence

31. Eric Seibert on biblical violence and the Canaanites

January 8, 2014 by Randal

If there was one thing drilled into me growing up in the church, it is that the Bible is “The Good Book”. And “good” meant, among other things, morally good. So throughout years of Sunday school I never thought twice about the mass drowning of men, women, children and animals in the Noahic flood. I never […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, Eric Seibert, ethics, hermeneutics, Old Testament, violence

Violence and the Good Book: My interview with Eric Seibert

January 21, 2013 by Randal

A few weeks ago I published a review of the book The Violence of Scripture (Fortress, 2012) by Eric Seibert, Professor of Old Testament at Messiah College. After reviewing the book I invited Dr. Seibert to submit to the rigors of an interview and he kindly obliged. What follows is an interview conducted by way of emailed questions […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, Eric Seibert, ethics, hermeneutics, Old Testament, The Violence of God, violence

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