Subject Index

Abraham 90, 91

Academy of the Hebrew Language 232

agnosticism 22, 24

allegory. See typology

“All People That on Earth Do Dwell” 42

Altizer, Thomas J. J. 5n3

American civil religion 147, 189n10

American Sign Language (ASL) 221

Anglicanism 182–83

anti-Semitism 123, 124, 127, 129, 228n41

Apocrypha 38, 180n73, 181–83, 184

Apostles’ Creed 238

atheism 22, 24, 98n62, 101, 102

atonement 75, 76

Augustine 37, 182, 219

Avalos, Hector 101, 127n114, 187n5

Babel-Bibel controversy 126–27

Barth, Karl 14, 74–75, 125, 222n16

Bartlett, David L. 50, 54, 55

Beal, Timothy 154, 189n10, 229nn45–46

Ben-Shahar, Tal 141

Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer 163–64

Bergen, Doris L. 235n63

Berger, Peter 9

Bernard of Clairvaux 37

Best Sermons series 28–38, 48, 50

Bible. See also New Testament; Old Testament

authority 180–81

biblical scholarship 188–89, 191, 192–94

biblical theology 191n14, 224

biblical worldview 11

bothness 226–29

canon 32, 33, 46, 47, 107, 112, 120n76, 122, 179–80, 224, 226, 231

children’s 236n67

and church 120

confession 74–75

content 85, 145

creole 143, 145–47, 151, 167, 189–90, 192, 229

dying 18, 75, 76, 151, 154, 183

historical development 85

information 74

interpretation 8, 55, 88–90, 92–94, 99

Judaism 166

knowledge 23–24, 38, 48, 128, 226

language

biblical scholarship 191

contact 75, 76

creole 151, 177

full 108, 119, 131, 138, 143–45, 150, 154, 185, 190, 211, 237, 239–40

Old Testament 166

preservation 192

resistance 178

training 173, 217, 219, 222

in worship 57

lectionary 49, 55

memory 55–56

morality 99

New Testament only 183–84, 224

Old Testament 223

pidgin 74, 75, 108–10, 112, 144, 145–47, 151, 154, 167, 189–90, 192, 229

poetry 4, 234

promise-fulfillment 227–28

study 189–90

unity 222–26

Big Picture Story Bible 230

Blackman, E. C. 105, 109n31, 118, 228n40

Black Protestants 21, 24

Bly, Robert 8n12

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich 32, 228

Book of Common Prayer 149, 182

Booth, Wayne C. 10n26, 42, 45

Borg, Marcus J. 12–13, 26

Borgen, Doris L. 128

Bosworth, Fred F. 146n44

Bowler, Kate 143–45, 146, 147, 149n57, 150–51

Boyd, Brian 234n59

Brueggemann, Walter 7, 37, 178, 200, 225

Buechner, Fredrick 14, 190

Burns, Robert 111

Butler, G. Paul 29

Calvin, John 8n15, 37, 208n55

Canaan 195, 196

Carroll, Robert P. 101

Chapman, Stephen B. 223n20

Childs, Brevard S. 223n20

Chomsky, Noam 168

Christianity. See also New Testament; Old Testament

doctrine 11–12, 184n86

and New Testament 128, 224, 229

North America 19–23

and Old Testament 16n43, 51, 78, 105, 124, 125, 128, 166, 184n86, 229

preaching 32

religious literacy 22–26

singing 44, 238

supersessionism 123, 124, 227

Clabeaux, John J. 108

colonization 152

Common Lectionary 52. See also lectionary; Revised Common Lectionary

conquest tradition 94–95

contemporary Christian music 47–48

Covenant Bible Study 194n24

Cox, James W. 29

Craigo-Snell, Shannon 237

Crystal, David 174

Darwin, Charles 91

David, King 118

Davis, Ellen F. 5n2

Dawkins, Richard 84–101, 106, 115, 118

Dead Sea Scrolls 182n81

Decalogue. See Ten Commandments

Delitzsch, Friedrich 126–27, 128

Dennett, Daniel 85, 101

Deuteronomic History 203

Deuteronomy, book of 92, 186, 194–96, 197–98, 199–202, 203–4, 205–9, 211, 213, 216, 231, 232–34, 238

diagnosis 15

Disciple Bible Study 194n24

Dollar, Creflo 153

Donne, John 227

Eagleton, Terry 87n17, 98, 150

Easter Sunday 50

Eastern Orthodoxy 182

Ecclesiastes, book of 36, 140, 188

Ehrman, Bart 96n55

Eller, Vernard 75n54

embodiment 17, 221

Englemann, Siegfried 169

Enns, Peter 8

Ephraem 112

Epistle of Barnabas, The 125

epistles 49

Erasmus 183

Euthymius Zigabenus 96

Evans, Ernest 112n38

Every Day a Friday 148

Exodus, book of 33

exodus tradition 94

Feasting on the Word series 54

figural reading. See typology

Frankfort, Harry G. 80n73

Geertz, Clifford 12n29

Genesis, book of 24, 33

Gethsemane 142

Gideons 184

Glinert, Lewis 163

globalization 147–48

gnosticism 109n29

God

agency 152–53

in Bible 103

bothness 230

Creator 103–4, 113, 136n11

God is dead movement 5n3, 214

goodness 114–15

happiology 133–34

justice 114, 116, 227

love 226n32

and Marcion 113–14, 116, 122

of New Testament 106, 107, 112–13, 117

of Old Testament 84–85, 106, 107, 112–13, 117, 127, 129

punishment 227

wrath 114–16, 226n32

Golden Rule 23, 24

Good Friday 149

Gospels 23, 49, 50, 53–45

Great Divorce, The 186–87, 194

Greenslade, S. L. 181n76

Gunneweg, A. H. J. 14

Hagège, Claude 71, 155n76, 165n29, 232n53

Hall, Stuart George 109n29

happiologists 15, 132

creole 146–47, 150, 151–52, 153–55, 176–77, 216

economics 148, 153

language 138, 141

New Testament 142, 143

New Thought 144, 145

pidgin 170–71, 216

Harnack, Adolf von 104, 108, 109n29, 121–26, 127, 128

HarperCollins 189n10

Harris, Sam 85, 99n64, 101, 103, 129n121

Harrison, K. David 71

Hartung, John 95–96, 97, 239n72

Hauerwas, Stanley 13, 173, 176

Haught, John F. 98n62

Hebrew 6–9, 77–78, 159, 163–66, 167–68, 179, 232

Hebrews, book of 75

Helm, David 230

Heschel, Abraham J. 115–16, 117n58

Hispanic Catholics 21, 24

Hitchens, Christopher 85, 90n30, 96n55, 101, 103, 106, 110–11, 118, 129n121, 226

Holladay, William L. 51, 52

Holm, John 62

Holocaust 128, 129

holy way 94

Huber, Jane Parker 41

hymns 39–44, 46, 49, 50, 57, 215

Hymns of Praise 40

Irenaeus 108, 112, 120

Isaac 89–91

Isaiah, book of 33, 195

Israel 164, 166, 196–97, 198, 199–200, 202, 206–8, 209n56, 230. See also Judaism; Old Testament

Jabez 153

Jacobson, Claire 12

James, Epistle of 221, 222

Jenson, Robert W. 75, 76, 125, 233n56

Jephthah 87

Jeremiah, book of 33

Jerome 181, 182

Jesus Christ

Christocentrism 228

cross and death 4, 75, 76

ethics 92, 110–11

and happiology 142, 149n57

and Marcion 103–4, 106, 117n62

and Old Testament 118–19

parables 233

reveals God 123–24, 237

training 201

Job 134, 139, 151, 172n44, 194, 223

John, Gospel of 118

Jones, Laurie Beth 153

Joshua 103, 196–97, 199, 200, 201–2, 203, 204, 208, 209, 233

Joshua, book of 200

Josiah 202–3, 204, 209, 233

Judaism 16n43, 25, 30, 92, 96n52, 123–24, 125, 126, 128, 164, 165–66, 179n71. See also Israel; Old Testament

Judges, book of 200

Kawin, Bruce 205

Keel, Othmar 12

Kenyon, E. W. 145–46

Kethe, William 42–43, 47–48

King James Version 43, 236n64

Kraeling, Emil G. 14, 127

Lamb, David T. 237n69

lament 52

language. See also under Bible; see also Old Testament: as language; Old Testament: linguistic analogy

adult 173–75, 176

Baby Talk Register 168

bilingualism 175–76, 220

change 59–62, 65–66, 99, 188, 204, 231–33

children 168–70, 171, 172, 173–74, 196, 220, 236

code-switching 160, 176, 222

cognitive content 221

communication 73, 75, 218

concentration 68

contact 61–62, 75, 77, 78, 232

creole 64–66, 77, 78–79, 83, 134, 151–52, 170–71, 176, 216, 232

death 3, 14–15, 67–76, 78, 101, 148, 160–63, 179, 185

dialect 159n1

generations 69, 70–71, 78

indigenous speakers 161n9

L1 161, 164, 173–74, 175, 176–77, 178, 195, 222, 239

L2 161, 173–74, 175, 176–77, 178, 195, 222, 239

linguistic analogy 12–13, 27, 36–37, 38, 46, 48, 56, 91–92, 98, 108, 111, 114–15, 116, 117, 131, 189

linguistics 12, 16, 60, 68n35, 168, 204

loanwords 61

motherese 168–69, 170, 172, 174, 220

and Old Testament 92

performance 204–5, 230

phonology 60–61

pidgin 26, 62–65, 66–67, 69–70, 73, 77, 78–79, 83, 114, 116, 132, 162, 169, 170, 172, 175, 216, 232

repetition 204–5

saving 160–62

second-language acquisition (SLA) 173–75, 195, 211, 220, 232, 233–34

simplification 60–61, 63

universal grammar 168

Lash, Nicholas 238

Lebreton, Jules 112

lectio continua 54

lectionary 29, 49, 55, 57, 215, 225. See also Common Lectionary; Revised Common Lectionary

Levenson, Jon D. 191n14

Lévi-Strauss, Claude 12

Leviticus, book of 33, 75, 96

Lewis, C. S. 186–87, 194

Lindbeck, George A. 11–12, 221

literalism 88, 99

Little Gidding 48n82

Liturgy of the Hours 52

Löhr, Winrich 106

Long, Thomas G. 50n91, 219n12

“The Lord’s My Shepherd” 42

Lot 88–89

love of neighbor 95–97

Luckman, Thomas 9

Luke, Gospel of 107, 117n60, 233

Luther, Martin 37, 43–44, 181

2 Maccabees, book of 210, 239

4 Maccabees, books of 210, 239

Magrassi, Mariano 234–35, 237n69

mainline Protestantism 22, 25, 30

Marcion/Marcionites

and God 113–14, 116, 122

Harnack 121–29

and Jesus Christ 103–4, 106, 117n62

New 15, 121–26, 215–16, 223

New Atheism 105, 106, 110–11, 112, 117–18, 119, 127, 128, 129, 131

and New Testament 171n43, 226, 228n40, 229n46, 233nn56–57

Old 15, 105–12

and Tertullian 112–21

May, Gerhard 109n29, 122

McConnell, D. R. 150

McConville, J. G. 195, 201

McKibben, Bill 6

McWhorter, John 17n47, 65n24, 71, 110, 152, 160, 190n11

Moberly, R. W. L. 172n44

Mormonism 22, 24

Moses 195, 196, 198, 199, 201, 202, 203–4, 205–6, 208, 209, 211, 232–33

Multnomah Books 153

Murdoch, Rupert 189n10

Nazism 127, 128

neglect 44–45

Neruda, Pablo 207

New American Bible 182n78

New Atheism

Marcion 104, 105, 106, 110–11, 112, 116n58, 117–18, 119, 127, 128, 129, 131

and Old Testament 84, 86, 97n57, 102, 103, 104

and Scripture 98n62, 99n64, 150, 216, 231, 240n76

New Criticism 53

New Plastic Gospels 15, 143

New Testament. See also Bible; Christianity; Old Testament

churches 5n2, 121, 239

death of 18

Deuteronomy 195

diversity 110

happiology 142–43

as language 224

in lectionary 49–50

martial imagery 118

Old Testament 4, 109, 119, 125, 222–24, 227–29

in sermons 30, 32, 38n45

training 217

understanding 226

New Thought 144–46

Newton, Joseph Fort 29

Numbers, book of 196

Old Testament. See also Bible; Israel; Judaism; New Testament; see also under Christianity; New Testament

and Babylonian culture 126

biblical worldview 10, 11

and children 172–73

in church 124–25

as creole 78–79, 84, 132, 239

critical condition 185

deception 127

Deuteronomy 195

diversity 108, 110

justification 222–23

knowledge 48, 56, 100, 167

lament 141–42

as language 6–8, 9, 76–77, 159, 164–65, 172, 176, 177, 178, 186, 214, 218, 221, 224, 230, 231

in lectionary 49–51, 53–54, 215

linguistic analogy 6, 7, 8–10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 66, 74, 76, 78–79, 86, 102, 111, 112, 159, 178–79

literal reading 119, 120

and Nazis 128, 215n3

and New Atheists 86, 103, 104

and New Testament 4, 53–54, 109, 222–24, 227–29

as pidgin 78–80, 84, 97–98, 99, 100–101, 111, 128, 129, 131

reality 8–9, 10, 11

rejection 122, 126

resurrection 165–66

in sermons 28, 30, 32–33, 36, 38, 214–16

song 235–38

theology 195

training 217

understanding 226

use 235–36

world 9, 11

ordinary time 54

Origen 120

Osteen, Joel 132, 133–42, 146–47, 148, 149, 151, 171. See also happiologists

Osteen, Victoria 149n57

Passion Narratives 4

pastor 216, 217, 218–19, 220, 225

Paul, apostle 106–8, 109, 117n60, 118, 126, 152, 223

Peale, Norman Vincent 147

Pennebaker, James W. 141n30

Pentateuch 199, 205, 206, 208

Pentecost 50

Peter, apostle 142

Pew Forum 20–26

Plotz, David 239n72

Point of Grace 47–48

Positive Psychology 132n3, 141

Poststructuralism 53

practice 17

Prayer of Jabez: Breaking through to the Blessed Life, The 153

preaching. See sermons

Project Follow Through 169

prosperity gospel. See happiologists

Protestantism 23–24, 27, 40, 44, 49n83, 55, 181, 182, 183, 184

Prothero, Stephen 20

Proverbs, book of 135–37

Psalms, book of 33, 37, 39–45, 47, 48, 49–53, 56, 118, 140, 141, 184n85, 195, 234

quasi-canonical source 46, 48, 49

Qumran 7n8

Rausching, Herman 129n121

Reader Response 53

reality/social construction of reality 8

Reformation. See Protestantism

religious literacy 20–26, 27, 28

resurrection 165n30

Revelation, book of 239

Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) 11, 27, 33, 48–56, 234

Robertson, Pat 100–101

Roman Catholicism 23–24, 30, 38, 49n83, 52, 55, 182, 183

Russernorsk 63

Rutledge, Fleming 109, 129, 227, 228

1–2 Samuel, books of 200

Sauter, Gerhard 235n63

Schökel, Luis Alonso 76

Scripture. See Bible

Seibert, Eric 119–20, 127n114, 237n69

Seitz, Christopher R. 16n43

selectivity 40–44, 52–53

Sermon on the Mount 92

sermons 28–29, 46, 48, 56, 57, 219, 224, 225

Sharp, Carolyn 172

Sheppard, Gerald T. 179–80

Sodom 88–89

Song of Moses 205–8, 210, 234, 235, 238–39

Song of the Sea 211

Song of Songs 37

Songs of Trust 40

Steiner, George 177–78, 222

Tanakh 163

Tarphon, Rabbi 239

Ten Commandments 23, 24, 90n30, 92

Tertullian 106n16, 109n28, 112–15, 116–17, 118, 119, 120

theology 186–88, 193

Thomas, Andrew 230

Tiberius 113n41

Tok Pisin 63, 64

Torah 47, 163, 195, 196, 198, 199, 202, 205, 206, 208, 209, 210, 234, 236

Tower of Babel 73

Towne, Anthony 5n3, 214

Towner, W. Sibley 39–41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 51

Trible, Phyllis 85

Trinity Sunday 50

typology 53–54, 117–18, 119–20

Uehlinger, Christoph 12

U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey 20–26, 27, 28, 30, 44, 55, 56, 57, 86n16, 213, 214, 217

Van Harn, Roger E. 50n88

Vischer, Wilhelm 14, 224n21

Wesley, John 101

West, Fritz 55, 56

Westminster Confession 181n76

Wheeler, David 70

white evangelicals 24

Wiesel, Elie 189

Wilkinson, Bruce 153

Wilson, Eric G. 150

Wittgenstein, Ludwig 12n29, 17n46

women 88–89

Wright, G. Ernest 14

Yahweh 85

Year of Living Biblically, The 231

“You Are” 230

Your Best Life Now 138, 148

Yutscher, E. Y. 166

Zeiller, Jacques 112

Zondervan 184, 189n10