Moses Wrote About Me: New NCT Resource Site
Michael W. Adams has been busy putting together his new site, Moses Wrote About Me, and launched it today.
He writes:
I’ve designed this site to be a resource for New Covenant Theology (NCT). NCT is a hermeneutic (a way of interpreting the Bible) that clearly shows how the Bible fits together because it is unencumbered by a pre-conceived system of theology that drives its interpretation in any one direction. NCT is free of any system of theology that would force it to interpret Scripture as that system demands, allowing NCT to interpret Scripture free from any pre-conceived theological bias.
I’m looking forward to checking out all the resources he has included on the site as well as following his blog and participating on the discussion board he has set up.
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March 10th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Doesn’t “NCT is free of any system of theology that would force it to interpret Scripture as that system demands, allowing NCT to interpret Scripture free from any pre-conceived theological bias” sound a bit naive to you?
I’m reading between the lines here that he’s essentially saying that NCT is non-confessional. Or am I mis-reading between the lines?
Is NCT redemptive-historical, Christ-centered, monotheistic, etc.? If so, then it has certain theological baggage, even if it is the “right” theological baggage. Every hermeneutical system leads to doctrinal conclusions, which then inform and shape that hermeneutical system. It’s inescapable. I don’t think being “free from any-preconceived theological bias” is possible, we simply need to attempt to have our theological views constantly being shaped by the Scripture. And that includes our hermeneutical principles. As Don Carson might say it in latinized French Canadian: Semper Reformanda, eh?
March 10th, 2009 at 7:54 am
It absolutely sounds naive on its face, but he is indeed speaking of not having a confessional lens or a dispensational construct. I think you are reading properly between the lines, and while Mike’s statement is optimistic, it also ignores the fact that all of us carry theological baggage.
There is a group of us who have identified four NCT “streams” — the fourth of which is the one we advocate, which has the baggage of being redemptive-historical, Christ-centered and monotheistic, but with an emphasis on picture-fulfillment in a very BT sense. D. A. Carson has very much been an influence on that, eh?
That’s found at this new joint blog: http://christourcovenant.blogspot.com/
My presentation from a think tank last summer as well as other papers are there. Not to be missed is Chad Richard Bresson’s on Isaiah 42:6 and 49:8. (Please excuse the stock Blogger graphics; it’s a fairly new site.)
Mike Adams is from stream #2 of the four streams identified in the article on the various flavors: http://christourcovenant.blogspot.com/2009/02/all-proponents-of-nct-believe-christ.html
The emphasis in stream four is on the pictures and types of righteousness as expressed in the revelation of God through the unfolding covenants and how they are fulfilled in substance in Christ who is the New Covenant.
March 10th, 2009 at 7:58 am
An addendum:
This from Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Matthew 5:17-18 is a concise summary of that fourth stream:
“It is, in other words, that all the law and all the prophets point to Him and will be fulfilled in Him down to the smallest detail. Everything that is in the law and the prophets culminates in Christ, and He is the fulfillment of them. It is the most stupendous claim that He ever made.”